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#138 choosing HEX password makes other buttons disappear
If I choose "Hex" as a password generation option on
the new 2.0-pre4 version, all the other buttons
("pronouncable", "a-z", "A-Z", etc.) disappear until I
tap "Hex" again.
Makes sense since those options are invalid, but maybe
you should set enabled=false rather than visible=false,
as it is confusing.
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Unfortunately there is no such thing as "graying" out controls. When I
disable them, they still look the same, they only do not react anymore.
I think this is very confusing.
As a compromise I could try to just hide the text inside the controls,
but I'm not sure how much work this is.
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You are right, I was thinking of a different language &
platform when I suggest "enable = false".
Still, I think the behavior/events that occur when "hex" is
tapped is counter-intuitive. It isn't against the behavior
of a toggle button, but it is against the behavior of a
group of toggle buttons. If "hex" were seperated (not part
of a group of toggle buttons) it would be easier to understand.
2 possibilities:
1) make it a seperate toggle above the "length" section. It
could then exist alone as a toggle or checkbox, or perhaps
with a partner(s) like alpha,alphanumeric,ASCII,whatever.
But in truth, none of those partners make sense, and alone
it would look silly/dangling.
2) leave it roughly where it is, but give it a few pixels
seperation. Dropping it down would make it look kinda ugly,
unfortunately. But shrinking "pronounceable" could work (at
least in english) so that it has a few pixels to the right.
3) Totally different approach: change "hex" to "A-F". Stick
it to the left or right of 0-9. Put the aYc where hex is
now. Don't make hex (a.k.a A-F) hide anything. Leave it to
me to check A-F and 0-9 and only those two if I want
hexadecimal passwords. Deal with the extra length options by
adding a second row of lengths, changing to a popup menu, or
something else...
I vote for #3.