[VS] [some Mac specific] mostly cosmetic issues - new and old

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/6/05 9:17 AM, "Michael Young" <m.young at mac.com> wrote:

> 5. To my way of thinking, Schema Browser Datasources column + sign at
> the bottom should "create" new datasource not "open" new datasource
> since the next three columns to the right all "create" when clicking +.
> Shouldn't this first column + also create for consistency? How about
> some type of connection icon in the first column in addition to the +
> or in place of it? Besides this column's + mouse over tip says "open
> new datasource", but the window that opens when the + is clicked says
> "Connect to Valentina Server". The tip and window title should probably
> be consistent.
> 
> An alternative idea might be to present a different create window when
> + is clicked depending on what the Datatsources top of column pulldown
> list setting is. For example, with ODBC datasource selected in this
> pulldown clicking the + presents ODBC datasource window, with Valentina
> 1.x Database Files selected in this pulldown clicking the + presents
> that type of create window, etc.
 
> 10. Datasource Elements column appears to use "delete" and "close"
> synonymously. These terms do not intuitively mean the same thing to the
> end users I have shown VS. The end users just stare at me when I
> "delete" a datasource with - click then proceed to open it again,
> especially since the Database Elements - click really deletes tables,
> for example. It seems to me that these various columns need to be more
> consistent in using "open", "close", "new" (which probably the
> preferred term) or "create" and "delete" so that my end users will stop
> staring. :-)

Points 5 and 10 are related.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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