Re: Two GUI questions

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 22:53, John Lamb wrote:
> 1. What is a good way to put durations (times) into the tasks in
> the GUI? I think we need to enter them as a set of parameters for a
> distribution. The default should be a fixed distribution: the
> _time_ for the task. Then a PERT distribution: three times.
> Possibly, later other distributions. But, how do we enter a time?
> It will be too much to ask for days and hours and minutes and
> seconds always. One possibility is to set a time scale for the
> project: days, weeks, hours. Then the default is to ask for times
> in the project _time scale_.
Maybe: In a task dialog:
a) Configurable default unit ( minutes, hours, days.....)
b) Radio buttons to select unit
c) One field to enter value
Alt:
Fields for all units but posibility to enter any number in any field
i.e 31 in hour field, 15 in day field etc.
>
> 2. How should we specify time-dependencies. That is, answer the
> questions: what activities must be done before this one? What
> activities must be done after. I think of being able to specify
> this within the dialog to add or modify a task and also from a
> menu. Is this sensible?
At least to be possible in pert diagram: click on parent task, click 
on child task. (Select areas for type of relation, or possibly a 
popup dialog).
>
> You will see that I have not a well-formed concept of what the GUI
> should look like. If I can develop one, I will try to write some
> code. That, at least, may give someone else the opportunity to do
> better.
I think dialogs are needed for things like adding/editing task, 
project etc, but IMHO as much as possible should be possoble to do in 
the presentation windows, i.e adding a task should be possible from 
the project list where you just get a new default entry and the 
possibility to edit each field.
But, I think that starting with dialogs are a good thing, because they 
are always needed. Finding more efficient ways can be added later.
So far I have only build on the dialogs Bo provided with the things I 
needed for testing wo any thought about design...

Anyway Thomas Zander offered to help with GUI design, so ehhh Thomas, 
are you there?

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Mvh,
Dag Andersen