Re: [Xcsoar-devel] Pull Request: Default help for empty checklists as per trac #1285

[Tobias B. <Tob...@gm...>]

How about a Help button that is shown when no checklist is loaded, that 
will open up a dialog with the instructions how to create a checklist?!

Turbo



Am 14.06.2011 07:08, schrieb Scott Penrose:
> Hi John
>
> I put in defaults just from a usability perspective. Ie. otherwise you 
> had an empty screen, which was a little confusing.
> Anyway happy to change.
>
> * Which standards. Every country is different.
> * Would you look at a checklist on a glide computer in this way. Isn't 
> CHAOTIC normally on the plane.
>
> Personally I use my checklists on XCSoar to cover my ground handling 
> things. E.g. a checklist of what to do after outlanding. One thing 
> that has helped with is things like: Write down coordinates because 
> you GPS may go flat; Take water before you walk anywhere :-)
>
> * Is it ok to have long strings in the language files, to allow the 
> defaults to change per language?
>
> Perhaps we should take a different apporoach and:
>
> * Just change the text to: "No checklists loaded"
> * Provide some checklists to download from our web site?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ta
>
> Scooter
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     That's not what I meant by default. Not populated with todo garbage,
>     But actual national recommended practices
>     (CHAOTIC, FUST etc in Australia
>
>
>
>
>     On 11/06/2011, at 10:13 AM, Scott Penrose <sc...@dd...
>     <mailto:sc...@dd...>> wrote:
>
>         Please pull
>
>         git://git.xcsoar.org/xcsoar/scottp/xcsoar.git <about:blank>
>         checklist_trac1285
>         <http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/scottp/xcsoar.git/log/?h=checklist_trac1285>
>         75395f3804cbc7da350c21376c545b5a37431e7d
>
>         As per
>         http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/scottp/xcsoar.git/commit/?h=checklist_trac1285&id=75395f3804cbc7da350c21376c545b5a37431e7d
>         <http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/scottp/xcsoar.git/commit/?h=checklist_trac1285&id=75395f3804cbc7da350c21376c545b5a37431e7d>
>
>         diff --git a/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp
>         b/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp
>         index 4431121..578f4e4 100644
>
>         --- a/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp
>         <http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/scottp/xcsoar.git/tree/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp?h=checklist_trac1285&id=e93b7333d0984871e8db226425eb875a1dbb0453>
>
>         +++ b/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp
>         <http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/scottp/xcsoar.git/tree/src/Dialogs/dlgChecklist.cpp?h=checklist_trac1285&id=75395f3804cbc7da350c21376c545b5a37431e7d>
>
>         @@ -173,8 +173,10 @@ LoadChecklist(void)
>         ChecklistTitle[0] = NULL;
>         TLineReader *reader = OpenDataTextFile(_T(XCSCHKLIST));
>
>         - if (reader == NULL)
>         + if (reader == NULL) {
>         + addChecklist(_("Create a checklist"),_("Create
>         xcsoar-checklist.txt\n[Square brackets on titles]\nOne entry
>         per line\nE.g. Checklist after outlanding\n"));
>
>         return;
>         + }
>         TCHAR Details[MAXDETAILS];
>         TCHAR Name[100];
>
>         @@ -214,9 +216,9 @@ LoadChecklist(void)
>         delete reader;
>         - if (inDetails) {
>
>         + if (inDetails)
>         addChecklist(Name, Details);
>         - }
>         +
>         }
>
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