suggestion for behaviour of FSGraph menu in Unitex interface

[eric.laporte]

It's OK that the 'FSGraph/Tools/Compile FST2' menu item of Unitex does not operate when no graph is selected, but I suggest it should issue an error message such as 'FSGraph Compile: first select the graphs to be compiled'. Presently, nothing happens if you click on this item when no graph is selected: in my experience, many users believe the graph has been compiled whereas it has not.
A graph is selected when its title bar is displayed in a bluer colour than its tool bar.
May I have opinions of other users?

[Denis Maurel]

Hi Eric,

It is a good suggestion...

Best regards,

Denis Maurel


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Université François Rabelais Tours
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It's OK that the 'FSGraph/Tools/Compile FST2' menu item of Unitex does not operate when no graph is selected, but I suggest it should trigger an error message such as 'FSGraph Compile: first select the graphs to be compiled'. Presently, nothing happens if you click on this item when no graph is selected: in my experience, many users believe the graph has been compiled whereas it has not.

A graph is selected when its title bar is displayed in a bluer colour than its tool bar.
May I have opinions of other users?

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[Nebojsa Vasiljevic]

Eric, 

I agree, this is an issue. There are more options that are not applicable when selected frame is not a graph, like "Save as". The easiest way to fix it is to popup an appropriate message when you click on a non-applicable option.  

General practice in GUI design is to disable (gray out) or hide a menu option when it is not applicable, but it would require a little bit more work to improve the GUI in this way. 

Regards,

Nebojša

On Friday, February 14, 2014 10:15:21 AM UTC+1, eric.laporte wrote:

It's OK that the 'FSGraph/Tools/Compile FST2' menu item of Unitex does not operate when no graph is selected, but I suggest it should issue an error message such as 'FSGraph Compile: first select the graphs to be compiled'. Presently, nothing happens if you click on this item when no graph is selected: in my experience, many users believe the graph has been compiled whereas it has not.

[Nebojsa Vasiljevic]

Now I see that there are disabled (grayed out) options in Text, DELA an Lexicon-Grammar menus (try it when nothing is open). 

So, we should implement "disable when not applicable" feature for the FSGraph menu options too.

Regards,

Nebojša

[eric.laporte]

Yes Nebojša, that would be great. -- Eric

[Nebojsa Vasiljevic]

Dear Eric and others,

I have implemented this feature (disable (gray out) non-applicable menu items in FSGraph menu). You can download Unitex.jar and source code patch from:

https://sites.google.com/site/unitexnv/

If you find out this works fine, I will commit the changes into the Unicode repository.

Regards,

Nebojša Vasiljević

[Denis Maurel]

Hi Nebojsa,

I tried it

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Denis Maurel


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Professor Denis Maurel
Université François Rabelais Tours
LI (Computer Science Research Laboratory)
EPU-DI
64 avenue Jean-Portalis
37200 Tours
France
Phone: 33-2.47.36.14.35
Fax: 33-2.47.36.14.22
mailto:denis....@univ-tours.fr

http://www.univ-tours.fr/maurel

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http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/

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Dear Eric and others,

I have implemented this feature (disable (gray out) non-applicable menu items in FSGraph menu). You can download Unitex.jar and source code patch from:

https://sites.google.com/site/unitexnv/

If you find out this works fine, I will commit the changes into the Unicode repository.

Regards,

Nebojša Vasiljević

On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:29:07 PM UTC+1, eric.laporte wrote:

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[eric.laporte]

Dear Nebojša,

On Monday, 17 February 2014 14:01:37 UTC+1, Nebojsa Vasiljevic wrote:
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I have implemented this feature (disable (gray out) non-applicable menu items in FSGraph menu). You can download Unitex.jar and source code patch from:

https://sites.google.com/site/unitexnv/

If you find out this works fine, I will commit the changes into the Unicode repository.

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I made a few tests with Unitex-jar-2014-02-17a.zip from:https://sites.google.com/site/unitexnv/

 and I found it OK.
Thanks,

Eric Laporte