Re: cascading sheets and HIG

FROM : Jonathan Hendry
DATE : Mon Jan 27 01:35:23 2003

On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 12:43 America/New_York, Andy Lee wrote:

> At 1:41 AM -0700 1/26/03, Alex Rice wrote:

>> On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 11:40  PM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:

>>>
>>> Just my $.02, but I *hate* waiting for sheets to unfurl, and any
>>> program that subjected me to a *series* of sheets would have to be
>>> *really* important to prevent me from trashing it.
>>>
>>> There's gotta be a less user-hostile way of doing it.

>>
>> I agree, it's by no means the best solution.

> [...]

>> I'm still thinking about the best way to bundle those up to present
>> to the user in a more friendly way.
>>

>
> How about using just one sheet but having its contents change as you
> progress from step to step?  You could fill the sheet with a tabless
> tabview, where each tab contains what you are now putting in its own
> sheet.  Instead of closing the sheet, "OK" would switch to the next
> tab.  The last tab's "OK" button would close the sheet.
>


That sounds good. It would avoid another problem with the multiple
sheets:

   the user gets a sheet, deals with it, she thinks she can move on, it
   slides away, then DOH! another one slides out. So she deals with that
one,
   thinks, NOW, she must be done, it slides away, then DOH! another one
slides
   out. Etc.

My complaint with sheets is mostly speed related, but this behavior
would
get irritating regardless of how fast the sheets animate.
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