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Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Question about how to handle best practice
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I would drop info icon from the message and maybe also use sensible
defaults in the drop down (e.g. previously chosen value or drivers
available by default).
By the way, if I am remembering correctly issue about not showing
errors when wizard is shown is stated in the Eclipse UI guidelines.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines#Initialization_2
regards,
Eugene
brian.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks guys... So you'd recommend something along these lines:
Brian Fitzpatrick
Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
Eclipse Data Tools Platform Connectivity Team Lead
Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
*Boris Bokowski <Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>*
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Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Question about how to
handle best practice
Francis Upton wrote on 12/10/2008 01:19:40 PM:
> What I have done in this case, is to have the message appear as it
> is, but just without the error icon (when the dialog is first
> presented), you can use an info icon I think. I think the message
> at the top is useful. Then if the user does something to cause the
> selection to be empty, it can have the error icon like it does now.
Yes, this is what the Platform and JDT wizards are doing. We start out
with an INFO rather than ERROR status. Finish and Next would be
disabled of course. If the user enters something and then clears
again, you would show an ERROR status.
> It's sometimes unpleasant to do all of the special handling for
> these cases, and I don't know of a standard easy pattern (other than
> the first time flag). :)
If your wizard uses data binding,
org.eclipse.jface.databinding.wizard.WizardPageSupport does all that
special handling for you. See also
org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding.snippets.Snippet014WizardDialog
in org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding.
Boris
