Re: [nebula-dev] Date Selection Widgets

[Jeremy Dowdall <jeremyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

Thanks for the shots of Sunbird - I think that style of time chooser is
definitely worth some coding time.

One of the reasons for the current header was to integrate a "Today"
button.  This may end up being one of those places to have a style
setting, but I'm still looking for more input/ideas like yours.

The call to spinner.setValues has been removed in CVS - thanks for
catching this, and feel free to file bugs if you find other dependency
issues I've missed (its been a long time since I used 3.1)

Roland Tepp wrote:
> Hello Jeremy,
> 
> I'll respond in-line as well:
> 
> Jeremy Dowdall kirjutas mulle  midagi seesugust:
>> Hi Roland,
>>
>>  Thanks for the overall impression and the comments - I'll respond in-line:
>>
>> Roland Tepp wrote:
>>   
>>>    1. I personally dislike time entry by dragging hands of analog clock
>>>       - it seems to require too good mouse control.
>>>     
>> A feature request was to have the hands "snap" at programmatically set
>> intervals and this seems to help reduce the amount of control required
>> fairly well.
>>   
> Good then :)
> 
>>>       Maybe if there was a way to enter hour/minute/second values by
>>>       typing (smt. like month/year chooser in the calendar part).
>>>     
>> I had initially not seen the point of this because I was always using it
>> as a drop component to the CDatepickerCombo and the user could do this
>> in the text region.  However, if the CDatepicker is placed directly on a
>> composite then perhaps a DIGITAL_CLOCK style could be useful and would
>> render a CDatepickerCombo (of style SIMPLE) in the clock region. Another
>> possibility would be to use a two column table (like the Act! drop time
>> widget) which has toggle buttons to select the hour/minute values...
>> More thoughts... ?
>>   
> I was actually thinking in line of having a style flag that would draw
> digital clock controls *in addition* to analog clock.
> One could drag clock hands if they like mouse-only control and/or type
> in desired time value using "digital controls".
> These controls could be either above or below the analog clock... I
> really don't know which style to prefer.
>>>       Or have a style flag/option to render time picker similar to what
>>>       Mozilla Sunbird calendar offers:
>>>     
>> I haven't built Sunbird in a awhile - is there a screen shot you could
>> refer?
> Compact style dropdown just displays hours and "rounded" minute values
> 
> I've made some screen shots of these on my windows box:
> The time entry drop down can be in one of two modes:
> 
> The first one is what I call "compact" and it displays table with all
> available hours plus another table below it containing some most
> commonly used minute values (those ending with 0 and 5). There is also
> an "expand" or "more" button below tables that allows choosing arbitary
> minute values by entering the second mode.
> 
> Expanded mode drop down displays all available minute values.Second mode
> is the one I like to call "expanded" - and it displays a table of all
> possible minute values.
> 
> User can switch between compact and expanded versions by toggling
> chevrons beneath the tables.
> 
> It seems that the drawback of this ui is that it does not facilitate as
> easy  keyboard navigation as calendar of the date chooser, since you
> need to make two choices instead of one.
> 
> I see this style working beautifully as digital time chooser dropdown -
> at least it beats by a long run any other dropdown style time pickers
> I've seen so far...
> 
>> A user requested a feature that would allow for a more convenient way to
>> set years that were a long way off (10+ years) and thus the "year
>> editing mode" was created - I think it is a good request and this is a
>> step in the right direction, but it's not there yet...
>>   
> Well - since you already go into "editing mode" with year number - why
> not having the "old style" and new style merge by having the year and
> month values organized like in the old style on the screenshot, having
> spinner buttons beside them. And in addition allowing to enter the
> "editing mode" of either one of those. That would make meaning of
> spinner arrows much more immediately clear and would also allow larger
> jumps in time.
>>> Can I use it ;)
>>>     
>> of course! :)
>>   
> I found out you have a dependency on SWT 3.2, although tiny one that can
> easily be amended - setValues method on the spinner control does not
> exist in Eclipse 3.1 (which is currently the target platform I am still
> using)...
> 
> -- 
>   Roland Tepp
> 
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