From: Eero T. <ee...@us...> - 2006-01-04 19:37:16
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Hi, On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:25, John Stoffel wrote: > Don> This is an example my interpretation of Richard Taylor's comments. > Don> It is not intended to be a editable view, but a view for display and > Don> navigation. Buttons will be added to allow adding/editing/deleting > Don> parents and relationships. > > I don't like it. It doesn't flow visually for me. I think you should > have the primary person in the middle, with the parents above, and the > children below. In my previous mail about Family view I had an ascii "chart" of that. :-) However, I think there might be layout problems if this view would show siblings and if there are multiple spouses with children or if the relationship(s) has/have multiple events (engagement, marriage, divorce, re-marriage etc). Visually it would also be nicer if the edit button would be on the left so that they are aligned (name lenghts can vary). > Don> Separate dialogs would be provided to edit family relationships. > > Don> Edit buttons are provided next to each name to bring up the Edit > Don> Person window for the person. Each name is treated like an HTML > Don> link - clicking on the link will make that person the active > Don> person. > > I thought the idea was that only one person could be active at a time, > and then you would edit that person only? So does it make sense to > make it so that clicking on the link of the active person would bring > up the edit dialog, but clicking on the link for others in the view > would make them active, and you'd just click on the active person to > edit them? How you would indicate the active person? By place or by outline? Would this view type e.g. always keep the male on the left and female on the right (so that it's easier to find husband and wife) and just highlight the active one? (This would have problems with same-sex couples) > Don> This view has been optimized for navigation and bring up edit > Don> dialogs. > > For me, I'd like to see some lines/boxes showing the links to the > active person. Agree. > And how do you show parent and step-parents in there? - Eero |