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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BBS User Interface Ideas Wanted
Keywords: user interface bbs
Message-ID: <2660@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 16:13:44 GMT
References: <8465@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <8465@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:
>The big problem has been designing a user interface which presents, say, 300
>newsgroups to the user in a very simple form that even a complete neophyte
>can understand and know what to do (Intuitive programming)  Note that I
>intend to follow the Mac Interface guidelines very closely.
>
>Some of the ideas have been basically: Present something akin to SFGetFile
>which allows a heirarchical selecting of the news.  (Treating comp and sys
>and mac as successive layers in a heirarchical tree).  I object to this as
>it is rather dry and can be imposing to a new user.  Other ideas has been a
>fairly involved selection scheme which, once you have decided which groups
>you want and dont want, allows you to save macros which you click on to get
>the groups you want.

   the tree concept works!  But do it in a "finder" style interface.  Draw
the windows with folders, and so forth.  You've used the finder, steal it's
interface.  Also if you get a chance log on to AppleLink and take a look at
what they are doing, it's kinda neat.


David M. O'Rourke

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