Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Control grouping

[Sean P. <sp...@ad...>]

On Mar 24, 2005, at 9:02 AM, David Catmull wrote:

> I've been thinking about the best way to imitate the OS X prefs dialog  
> layout in Eve, as seen here:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ 
> OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGLayout/chapter_11_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/ 
> uid/TP30000360/CHDEACGD
>
> Maybe there can be a different approach: let the "group box" be a more  
> general concept - a bunch of controls with a label - with different  
> possible representations (see the Grouping Controls page of the AHIG):
> * The two-column "preferences" layout
> * A regular group box control - ie an actual box with a label above it
> * A text label above an indented set of controls, with (optionally?) a  
> separator line filling up the rest of the horizontal space after the  
> label
>
> The two-column layout may be less normal on Windows, so perhaps a  
> different layout could be used there.

It's an interesting idea to make these be a variant of a group box - to  
get the labels to line up I think will require a fix in Eve2 (I don't  
think guides on containers do anything... but they should and did in  
Eve1, I'll have a look).

Sean



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