[gtkada] How does this look? (Help Dialog)

[Preben Randhol]

Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre at nbi.dk> wrote on 04/05/2002 (19:25) :
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> I would at least consider to order the fields kind of as you
> find them in a book:
> 
>    Contents..: [choose top level section]
>    Subsection: [choose at the subsection level]
> 
>    the chosen help text
>    comes here

Yes I tried this, but the problem was that it could look a bit confusing
for people not experienced with computers. I'll have a look at it again
though as I think perhaps I can do it a bit different from what I did
initially.

>    Index: _enter_keyword_here_____ [Look it up]
>
> And let repeated clicks on "Look it up" jump to the next
> section, where the keyword occurs.

Next version :-)

> Another possibility is to have an expandable tree view of
> the section and subsection titles to the left, the actual
> help text to the right, and the index search function at the
> bottom of the dialog.

Oh no I truly hate expandable trees. I think they clutter things up and
are not very userfriendly. It is really annoying to have to click the
+'s all the time.

Thanks for your suggestions!

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