On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, gary thompson wrote:
> for the record you have to do the following
>
> 1. click on a list to clone
> 2. click clone peaks
> 3. a dialog comes up saying 'please select a destination' [OK]
> 4. you click ok
> 5. if you have lots of peaks a second dialog comes up saying copy will
> duplicate xxxx peaks. this may take some time. [OK] [cancel]
I guess it would be more logical if these popups appeared the other way
round.
> 6. clone peaks changes to a blue button with 'cancel cloning' (note you
> haven't started cloning yet though ...)
> 7. then you have to pick a peak list from original peak list
This matches the way other gui picking operations are done (e.g. atom
assignment etc.)
> [woe betide you if you click badly and get the wrong peak list... you
> will trash it and have to start again] or pick 'cancel cloning' button
You want another popup that says 'Cloning from listA to listB. Do you
really want to?' with the option to cancel?
> sorry the developers may shoot me, but this design is just not very
> unintuitive
>
> (n.b. it has taken me about 3 - 4 hours to work out where I was going wrong
> here)
So it'll only take you a couple of minutes to write the text to go under
the help button now!
Brian
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