Good UI to select one of 250+ item ? (proto-answered, but looking for other suggestions)
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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Would a simple tree control do the trick ? Because IMHO it looks better than having two separate lists.
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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Maximilien wrote:
Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ?
Other: yes. New: probably. You can put all the info in a single control with list and expansion capabilities, such as a TreeView. Here is an example[^]. It could start of in collapsed state, and expand when one of the pluses gets clicked, possibly collapsing any previous expansions. [EDIT]link fixed]/EDIT] :)
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modified on Monday, August 17, 2009 10:49 AM
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Maximilien wrote:
Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ?
Other: yes. New: probably. You can put all the info in a single control with list and expansion capabilities, such as a TreeView. Here is an example[^]. It could start of in collapsed state, and expand when one of the pluses gets clicked, possibly collapsing any previous expansions. [EDIT]link fixed]/EDIT] :)
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modified on Monday, August 17, 2009 10:49 AM
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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As a UI layout, in a small surface, I suggest a top combobox populated with categories and a bottom checkedListbox having the same width and populated with the "selectable" items. Of course you intercept the combobox selection change event and you refill the listbox with item belonging to the new active category only.
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As a UI layout, in a small surface, I suggest a top combobox populated with categories and a bottom checkedListbox having the same width and populated with the "selectable" items. Of course you intercept the combobox selection change event and you refill the listbox with item belonging to the new active category only.
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Doesn't that "hide" the categories to the user ? i.e. force him to click on the combobox ?
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Doesn't that "hide" the categories to the user ? i.e. force him to click on the combobox ?
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Yes that's true. But as I understood, the role of categories is here to aid with the selection process only. The combox can show something as long as the following (MSWord options=>customize) : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/3830410758_5ea4f4e55a_o.png[^] And there would be no problem. If the space is really very very small, then you may need a " hierarchical checked combobox " Good luck.
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Link now fixed. Sorry for that. :)
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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A couple of ideas from iTunes
- The 'Grid' view, when you have the 'Artists' view selected, shows a grid containing all the artists. Double-click on that and you get a list view of all the artist's tracks, grouped into albums.
- The list view in iTunes shows all tracks (that's almost 13000 for me). There is a 'Search' field, which acts as a filter - if I want to find tracks which have some link to the text 'camera', I type 'camera' into the search field and get two tracks; 'Distant Camera' by Neil Young and 'The Camera Eye' by Rush
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Good Monday! (yeah, there goes the sympathy votes!) I have a small dialog that let the user select one item out of around 250 items. The items are grouped into logical categories; so I'm looking at doing something like have two lists, one with the categories, and one containing the subsets represented by the selected category. (i.e. a bit like the toolbar/command customize of VS2008) Is there other new ways to present that kind of information ? Thanks. Max.
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Ever thought about a Tree Control? :)
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