| There is really no way we can know how people are going to want
to read the books. They may have resized and/or moved the text and
selection windows around; they may have other windows on the screen
they don't want to occlude; they may *want* the figures to pop up
where they do by default.
If, for example, the bookreader popped up the figures to the left of
the text window, the selection window is likely to be occluded and
people are likely to object to that. It's always unsafe to make
assumptions about what users are going to do/want -- that's why it's
very easy to move windows around, so users can do exactly as they want
at any given time. (Conversely, it's always safe to assume that
approximately half our users will dislike any defaults we select for
them.)
In the case of a user who wants to see the text at the same time
as the illustration, the text window can be moved to the left so
the figures pop up to the right of it.
Mary
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| Is it possible to make the "default" location for a pop-up be the
last location the user moved a pop-up to?
The scenario: I was using the Bookreader on a chapter that had lots of
tables in it. I had my windows set up so that my selected window and
the Bookreader text window were side-by-side, that is, I wanted my
window to remain completely visible. Every time I popped up a table,
the popup window covered part of my selected window, so I had to
move it back to the left, over the Bookreader window. When I was
done with each table, I clicked Close Topic. Then when I popped
up the next table, it didn't appear at the location the previous
one was at when I dismissed it, it appeared over my selected window.
I wished the popup windows would "remember" where I wanted them to be.
Pilar.
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| I'd like to know if there's an answer to .2's question. This is
a problem with a book that has art and/or examples with callouts.
We only see the callouts, no art/example; pop it up and you can't see
the callouts. If this has been addressed elsewhere, forgive me,
and drop in a pointer, please. I'm going through with next unseen,
and I've just started reading!
Susan
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