Re: [Scaffoldhunter-devel] Fwd: Re: Random Subset Patch File version 2

[Anjenson <hot...@gm...>]

On 04/07/2014 06:20 PM, Till Schäfer wrote:
> One further suggestion (i do not expect you to do this, but if you have fun to do so this would make the dialog perfect for me :-) ):
> I just noticed, that you also check the size of the parent subset. This is a nice feature. A small problem that remains, is the the user might be unaware about the cause of the disabled ok button. We should indicate the cause in some way.  The easiest would be to show a message like "value to large" or "cannot create a subset with a size larger than than the parent subset size". The problem is, that we have a some of empty space (if no message ist shown) or the dialog changes the size. An alternative would be to show a tool tip over text field that explains the error, but the user might miss the tool tip. We can also show small info icon (behind the text field / if the size error occurs) that shows the error message as tool tip and surround the text field with a red line like in the "new user dialog".   What do you think is the best solution?
I think that a good solution would be pointing maximum size of the 
subset in label next to the text field
     ( something like           [text_field     ]  / max_size       )

  and combining this with red border in case user still inputs too big 
size will be good. I also like the idea about the tool tip and I think 
this may be good as well.

Just one more thing. As Shamshad is also working on features it would be 
great if you could post some more of them. Or should we look for them on 
our own?

Regards,
Andrew "Anjenson" Zhilka