UPD Mail Archive: UPD> Generic UI: grouping and levels

UPD> Generic UI: grouping and levels

From: Norbert Schade (norbertschade@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 15:30:43 EST

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    While some platforms have their own philosophy how to visualize certain controls (what is a tab under Windows, is a panel on the Mac), we may want to stay out of the business of defining each last detail of a UI in a generic description.
    I'd be mainly interested to group features and nest groups. that might be defined on a quite high level.
    A dialog must start with a group. A group may have a string reference and must have at least one of feature|group.

    So UI1 may be something like
        Group1
            Feature1
            Feature2
            Feature3
            Group2
                Feature4
    This basically leaves it open, if Group2 is shown together with the first three features or if it's realized as a button to call a subdialog with Feature4. An attribute Level could further indicate the intended structure.

    UI2
        Group1
            Group2
                Feature1
            Group3
                Feature2
    this could be a sample for tabs or panels. An attribute Composition (superimpose/juxtapose) could further indicate the intended structure.

    So with elements group and feature and attributes FeatureReference to a feature respectively String, Level and Composition to a group you have a nice set of tools to define what your UI shall look like while leaving the final appearance to the driver.

    Regards
    Norbert

    Norbert Schade
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