Use a tooltip for the text, and have it trigger as soon as the slider is interacted with, and persist for several seconds after. That way, there's informational text that follows the mouse cursor from the moment the user starts interacting with it, until they stop - and several seconds more.
That should give you the space for a concise (but not overly brief) notification or explanatory message. On 12/06/2011 9:08 AM, Jonathan Welch wrote: > While testing the updated graphic I've been looking at the cautionary > wording on the slider and am not happy with it. There is no good way > to align the text so it looks nice in all languages and the width of > the slider would have to be wide enough to support the longest word in > whatever language that happens to be. > > I am thinking that a warning notification message could be sent if the > draw distance is adjusted up past a certain threshold. Much more > explanatory text could be put into this notice and it would also be > i10n friendly. > > Warning: You have just set your draw distance to a large value. This > may cause poor system response. > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
