| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
As I show my prototype to folks, they often ask what the syntax for a given attribute value is, so they know how to specify a value for it. If the attribute already has a value they can show it, but for arguments to a create they don't have much guidance. Now, traditionally that is something we'd turn to help for, and the product will certainly ship with a help file describing each attribute and showing an example of its value syntax. I'm wondering what goodies might be planned for the Iconic interface. We can use the middle button now for field-specific information and operations. Do you envision us being able to access the help text for an attribute via that mechanism?
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| 800.1 | TOOK::CALLANDER | Fri Mar 15 1991 11:24 | 11 | ||
In the past lots of ideas have been punted around. Some of them were for MB2 to be able to tell the user: from the dicationry -- what was the data type and what the max length was (with length most important for things like strings) Based upon the data type in the dictionary give and example format Based upon the data type give them a mechanism for "quick fill" of certain data types; in this space enumeration has been done but other things discussed were slide bars for numerics and ranges... Define on-line help in a manner that allows for look=up of specifics and give the info (what you suggested/asked about) | |||||
| 800.2 | re .0 | BARREL::LEMMON | Thu Apr 04 1991 10:29 | 6 | |
Due to time constrains, nothing is being done in the v1.2 timeframe. Another idea we have punted around is to use the DECwindows help mechanism. That is, you press the "help" key while focus is in a specific field, this would then bring up the help text for the attribute. /Jim | |||||