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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:	Online Bookbuilding
Notice:	This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:	VAXUUM::UTT

Created:	Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:	Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	440
Total number of notes:	2134

72.0. "Wishlist Item" by LADEDA::GRIGLACK () Tue Jan 31 1989 13:51

Here's an item I'd like to have added to the wishlist.  There are buttons 
at the bottom of the book window for "previous topic" and "next topic".
These work relative to the current topic.  I'd like to be able to click
to the last topic I viewed.  

For example, suppose I'm reading along and I see a hot reference to some 
section in another chapter.  I click on that hot spot and read the info there.
Then I want to go back to where I was reading to finish that section, or to
continue on, or whatever.  I can't get there easily.  I have to know what
the section was and look it up in the TOC again.

Maybe a "last topic" button could be added to the book window.  You might
essentially stack up the topics in the order they were read.  Then I could use
the "last topic" button to pop up through the stack.


Lisa Griglack

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
72.1		VAXUUM::UTT		`Wed Feb 01 1989 10:40`	6
	Yes, this feature has been suggested by many people and is definitely on the list for a future release of the Bookreader. Thanks, Mary
72.2	which topic?	STAR::KRAETSCH	NeXt Window Please	`Wed Feb 01 1989 18:46`	9
	Any suggestions for the button label? "Previous Topic" is already used, and "Last Topic" might imply the last topic in the book. The inablility to return from a cross-reference is recognized as a shortcoming in the Version 1 Bookreader. thanks for any suggestions, joe
72.3		STAR::ROBERT		`Thu Feb 02 1989 08:27`	5
	Reverse, go back, unwind (too techie), back up, back, review, ? Not really crazy about any of them but ... - greg
72.4	helpful editing?	STAR::ROBERT		`Thu Feb 02 1989 08:29`	10
	Incidentally, it might be nice if the trail avoided duplications ... that is, if a given topic is already in the list delete the old reference and add the new one at the end. That way you don't see a lot of flip-flopping when backing up, and the list is usefully shorter. Sometimes this will be "unfriendly", but my hunch is that more often it will be the right heuristic. - g
72.5		MTWAIN::WARD	Pizzaholic	`Thu Feb 02 1989 16:32`	6
	What about "LAST TOPIC READ" ? This is sufficiently different from "PREVIOUS TOPIC" and "NEXT TOPIC". Randy
72.6	maybe you don't need a new button,	PSYCHD::MICHAELS	Karen Michaels	`Thu Feb 02 1989 17:44`	5
	Instead of adding a new button to go back you could simply start up a new bookreader window at the new location. But then you would have the problem of which window the main window (with the index and contents) should control. ---Karen
72.7	how about a list?	TLE::HALL		`Wed Feb 08 1989 09:42`	7
	Don't some applications show you a "history" list of where you've been? That way, you can keep your "finger" in a half-dozen or so places at once and keep skipping back and forth. When using a book as a reference, this mode of use is common. \ken
72.8	BEAM-ME-UP	STAR::GEORGES	John Georges	`Wed Feb 08 1989 12:28`	8
	How about +--------+ \| RETURN \| +--------+ Also, if I'm two or more levels deep (hot spot within a hot spot), design the RETURN button to bring me back to the original topic, not just back to the previous hotspot. (I think this is what Greg mentioned in a previous reply.)
72.9	Now, where was I?	GOOD4U::AHERN	Dennis the Menace	`Mon Feb 20 1989 11:46`	6
	The on-line help on the Sun Microsystems 386i builds an audit trail of what the user has looked at and keeps the last 16 documents available in a pop-up window called "History". The user can click-on any item in this window to return to that page.
72.10		VAXUUM::UTT		`Mon Feb 20 1989 18:41`	6
	Such functionality is on the list for a future release of the Bookreader. Thanks, Mary
72.11	Go Back	CASEE::WYMAN	Bob Wyman, CASEE::WYMAN	`Mon Mar 27 1989 09:51`	7
	DECwindows Help and MEMEX Hyperinformation use the term "Go Back" to mean return to the last item read. It would seem to be desirable to use similar language to these two applications unless the meaning of the function was distinctly different. If I understand correctly what is being asked for, the meanings ar actually quite similar. bob wyman