Brian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wayne Boucher wrote:
>
>> On point (1), the three main menu items you can select are "new
>> project",
>> "open project" and "open spectra". The latter was meant as a way of
>> looking at spectra without having to actually explicitly create a
>> project
>> (one is created for you automatically behind your back). I'm not
>> sure how
>> many people actually use that option so I wonder if we can always insist
>> that people create a project. And I'm also not sure what the split
>> between "new project" / "open project" is. We could perhaps have a
>> dialog
>> pop up where it gives you the option of doing one or the other (or also
>> "open spectra" if we keep that). I guess that might help novices,
>> although with so few menu choices not greyed out I would have hoped it
>> wouldn't be that hard to have figured these out without additional
>> prompting. What do people think?
>
> I was happy with the way things are but agree that a dialog that
> offered a choice between "new project"/"open project"/"open spectra"
> would be a new-user friendly feature. However, what about when you
> just want to run the analysis GUI to e.g. do an update? If this gets
> in and user profiles come along, please could we have the option to
> have it not appear?
>
> Some kind of lock to prevent multiple instances trampling the same
> storage along the lines Andy suggests would be a really good idea.
>
> Brian
>
A lot of programs i use (an example that might be familiar to saome of
the analysis programmers is eclipse) have a tick box 'with don't show
this again 'for some dialogs that are either informational or for first
time users. I certainly in general want less button presses and click
throughs to get to where I want to be (but I guess I might call my self
a power user in some aspects ;-))
regards
gary
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