Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] re: Mandatory fields, yellow form

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

 Can you please clarify if asterisk (*) is part of the label or it 
should be drawn by the decoration?

 Also, there is some inconsistency between screenshots on the wiki and 
PDE editor screenshot shown below, namely "label*:" vs. "label:*". So, 
which one is standard way recommended by the Platform UI guidelines?

 Thanks

 Eugene


Kevin McGuire wrote:
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> Hi Nico,
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> Mandatory fields can be marked with an asterisk (*) at the end of the 
> label for the field.  For example, from the PDE editor:
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> The yellow fields were how we did things in 3.2 and earlier.
>
> For further information see 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Field_Decorators_and_Validation  and
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=120238
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> Regards,
> Kevin
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> Dear list
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> I've got two questions that have something to do with the Eclipse User
> Interface Guidelines (http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines):
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> 1. The Eclipse way of indicating mandatory form fields
> What is the best practice for mandatory form fields?
> a) setting an asterisk next to the label text
> b) marking the form field itself
> c) both
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> 2. Yellow form field background
> When creating a new folder or file in Eclipse the fields have a yellow
> background. What is the meaning of those yellow form fields?
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> Regards,
> Nico
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