Brian Smith wrote:
> 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.)
this is true but in general atom assignments are quicker and much more
asy to undo ;-)
>
>> [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?
no this would be annoying, see my other message for what i think would
be a good design ;-)
>
>> 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!
I would be quite happy to impliment something different from the current
design that was easier to use if people would like me to, when I have a
few moments spare...
regards
gary
>
> Brian
>
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