Re: [libdb-develop] UI Question: Dropdown of Persons, Manual Entry, or Both?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Nov 1, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:

> Alright. You're entering a new movie,

... or book, article, album ... :-)

> and you've reached the part of the form where you're going to enter 
> cast and crew members. Assuming that you MUST manually enter the data, 
> do you want to type each person's name manually, or choose from a list 
> of existing names? And if you want to choose from a list of existing 
> names, how would you prefer to handle the addition of new names?

I'd like both options I think.  I was just looking at an early version 
of a UI that did this.  It had a list of existing names where you could 
highlight one or more, and then click a "-->" button to add them.  If 
they weren't on the list, there was a field to add them as text.

At least worth thinking about.  I think this is one of the more 
difficult aspects of designing these GUIs.

Bruce