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Re: Mark field as required

Alan Cooper in his book "About Face 2.0, The Essentials of Human Interaction Design" he makes the point that there shouldn't be any required fields. When you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. Before computers, ...
by James Bott
Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:24 am
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Mark field as required
Replies: 23
Views: 1779

Re: Search on customer.dbf

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvhh4scv/hhk.png I 'm using oldest customer.dbf (without ID field) I wish insert Alan (as first) and Joe( as Last) when I insert "Alan" it return me "Alan" exist and then I cannot insert the lastname here the test sample #include ...
by Silvio.Falconi
Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:00 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Search on customer.dbf
Replies: 6
Views: 728

Re: lSeekBar

... the word - a list (checkboxes ) of all possibility record sample : "Achim" "Adele" "Adrian" "Al" "Alan"
by Silvio.Falconi
Sun Jan 01, 2017 5:19 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: lSeekBar
Replies: 16
Views: 7106

Always about Outlook and OLE

Hi, I have several emails accounts on Outlook. For example: nick@softwarexp.co.uk (default), alan@softwarexp.co.uk, mary@softwarexp.co.uk. How can I send an email via ole to Outlook using a sender different from the default account ? How for example can i send an email ...
by Marco Turco
Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:49 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Always about Outlook and OLE
Replies: 6
Views: 1268

Re: sub menus

... from the second level menu. I recommend this book for learning about interface design: About Face 2.0, The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper. There is a version 3 also but I prefer 2.0. You can get this on Amazon. Regards, James
by James Bott
Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:25 am
 
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: sub menus
Replies: 4
Views: 2498

No es una critica pero miremos a la opinión de otros.

... programación que tanta fama tienen hoy en día. Solo es una cuestión para reflexionar. http://redi.um.es/campusdigital/entrevistas/4441-alan-kay-informatico-nuevo-doctor-honoris-causa-de-la-universidad-de-murcia-
by Andrés González
Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:06 am
 
Forum: Off Topic / Otros temas
Topic: No es una critica pero miremos a la opinión de otros.
Replies: 0
Views: 352

... a lot of manual manipulation by the user which is wasted effort. If you are interested in more on this topic I suggest getting a copy of any of Alan Cooper's books "About Face The Essentials of User Interaction Design" (there are three editions). If you still want to design MDI app, the information ...
by James Bott
Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:09 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Help : Details of the opened dialogs/windows in application
Replies: 18
Views: 4129

Buttons and ButtonBmps

... find the following article on interface design quite interesting: http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$51 I also HIGHLY recommend Alan Cooper's book, "About Face" on interface design. I consider this to be the most important book on programming that I have. It is available at http://www.Amazon.com. ...
by Antonio Linares
Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:37 am
 
Forum: Utilities / Utilidades
Topic: Boris Pekic - NG's archive
Replies: 27
Views: 65389

... I think. Well, it doesn't really matter what you or I think (as programmers), it matters what the users think. Your answer reiterates what Alan Cooper said, that it is easier for the programmer but not for the user. You seem to only be looking at it from an ease of programming view. Well, ...
by Patrick Mast
Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:52 am
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Button in GET problem
Replies: 19
Views: 3901

... I think. Well, it doesn't really matter what you or I think (as programmers), it matters what the users think. Your answer reiterates what Alan Cooper said, that it is easier for the programmer but not for the user. You seem to only be looking at it from an ease of programming view. I have ...
by James Bott
Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:58 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Button in GET problem
Replies: 19
Views: 3901

... gets are horizontal scrollable. As a user I would hate that. You can't see all the data; you have to scroll each GET one at a time. Here is what Alan Cooper has to say about horizontal scrolling, in his book "About Face The Essentials of User Interaction Design." He is talking about listboxes, ...
by James Bott
Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:31 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Button in GET problem
Replies: 19
Views: 3901

... You should also do everything in your power to prevent users from ever having to see an alert message. I highly recommend getting a copy of Alan Cooper's book, "About Face 2.0, The Essentials of User Interaction Design." This will really help you with Windows application design. You can ...
by James Bott
Fri May 30, 2008 6:11 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: More about ALERT()
Replies: 5
Views: 1685

... best people to design interfaces. Unfortunately, most programmers often are not the best designers either. I highly recommend getting a copy of Alan Cooper's book, "About Face 2.0, The Essentials of Interaction Design." You can find more about it and a link to Amazon's page on my website here: ...
by James Bott
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:27 am
 
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: Strange TButton behavior with VK_RETURN
Replies: 4
Views: 2345

... devList.Device[0].irdaDeviceID, 4); memcpy (iraddr.irdaServiceName, "IrLPT", 6); // Establish a connection to the socket. Signature Alan J. McFarlane http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alanjmcf/ Please follow-up in the newsgroup for the benefit of all. Reply to this Message KS - 25 Mar ...
by Arturo Lopesoria
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:05 am
 
Forum: FiveWin para Pocket PC
Topic: Impresion via IRDA
Replies: 23
Views: 9629

... Alt-O to jump to the next folder. I think you would get a lot ouf of reading the book, "About Face 2.0, The Essentials of Interaction Design," by Alan Cooper and Robert M. Reimann. This is a teriffic book about Windows application interface design. You can find out more about it on my website ...
by James Bott
Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:57 pm
 
Forum: FiveWin for Harbour/xHarbour
Topic: Don't want ENTER to push button
Replies: 11
Views: 2405
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