Re: on value edit fields (i.e. the too small buttons inside)

On Wed,  4 Sep 2002 05:20, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> > > Problem 1 should be solved by enlarging the icons. As they then
> > > won't fit anymore one above the other they have to be put
> > > somewhere else. Attached you can see two possibilities of which I
> > > like the first one better as one cannot accidentally click the
> > > wrong button.
> >
> > Ah, but there is one other way of enlarging the icons. See my
> > sample attached.
>
> Imagine this with a dialog where there are many value edits... and
> even in your proposal the edit field looks quite strange... the value
> appears to be lost alone ;) I think one has to accept the height of
> the usual edit field as the maximum heighth.

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Do you mean that the 
value in the field looks small and lost in the large edit box?

That's an easy fix: make the text size bigger.

Personally, I like the look of the text with plenty of room around it. 
But its easy enough to tweak. A few pixels here, a few pixels there.



> What about an additional tool tip or the like that shows the
> corresponding value when hovering over the slider bar with the mouse?

Surely you don't need a tool tip for the slider, since you can just 
look in the edit field to see the value?


-- 
Steven D'Aprano