2015-03-25 5:24 GMT-03:00 Long, Martin <[email protected]>: > >>> >> *MANY* thanks for your powerful explanation. =D >> > > You're welcome :) > > >> I have many ideas about how it should looks like and work... I'm doing >> some mockups and I will let you see it soon. >> > > Great, I'd love to see them. > > >> >> I'm thinking about structures where users could add or/and group things >> by a simple "drag and drop" >> > > That sounds good. The specification uses the word "groups", but I don't > really like this because groups seems to imply that an item belongs to a > single group. I prefer "sets". My Suunto dive computer, for example would > be part of both my "UK Cold Water" set, and my "Tropical" set, as I use it > wherever I go. >
Hmm... it would be just a case of "naming" - the base idea is to have exactly what you expect = one equipment can belongs to none, one or many groups/sets =D > > >> >> - we could have a view or dialog with all equipments >> - users would be able to 'drag and drop' items from this view/dialog to >> the equipment tab >> > > ... and drag and drop complete sets too. Yes. > > >> - I think it's important to have pre-defined categories - easier to find >> items >> > > I think some sort of structure would make sense, but I'm finding it hard > to imagine categories with the right granularity. I could see most > categories containing just a single item (or perhaps a choice of 2): > > Lighting: > - NDiver X3 Torch > - Umbilical HID > > Emergency > - Strobe > - Whistle > - Diver Alert > > Breathing Gear > - Regs > - Cylinder > - Guage/Console > > > Maybe something like that could work. This could perhaps use some input > from some of the more experienced/techy divers. > Maybe the name should be 'type' instead of 'category'. In this way, I think that it would not be a problem if we identify/name each equipment according to what it is... eg. http://iesa-fao.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Scuba-Gear.jpg , http://www.scuba.com what do you think? > > >> - It would be nice if each category had a thumbnail - it could be >> configurable (eg. allow users to add a picture to a specific equipment, >> otherwise just use a default img of the corresponding category) >> - equipment tab : instead of showing a detailed list, we could show a >> kind of thumbnails list with very basic info (name + manufacturer + number >> of uses) - tooltip->more info - double click->dialog with details >> > > For the equipment tab, I would simply go for something like > "{Manufacturer}: {Name}", and probably just in a straight list, or possibly > switchable between a list and thumbnails. I think that function needs to > win over form here, but would like to hear input from others. > Yeah, I'm considering the idea of having two ways to display the data - detailed list OR thumbnail list I was doing a research in other software (in order to see how they handle this kind of thing). I saw that MacDive has something like what I had in mind for a "thumbnail list". http://www.mac-dive.com/images/features/feature_gear.png Unfortunately I'm not a MAC user and I'm not able to install it and see how they do to add an equipment in a divelog - someone knows? Another aspect to consider it that a type of equipment can have a specific key property on a dive (which will be set only in the equipment tab on a dive, of course) - eg. cylinders and weights So, the equipment list would display only basic info (which are common to all equipment - user should be able to choose what columns they want to see in a list as well). Now I'm imagine how the user would set the parameters of a 'cylinder' in the equipment tab: 1) double click -> open small dialog box with these fields (pop-up) 2) single click -> a kind of accordion effect, fields appear (sliding) in the bottom of the equipment tab (users should be able to stick this small side panel if they want - so, it would not be shrinking and stretching other fields in the equipment tab every time something is clicked) 3) ideas? Actually I would like to avoid 'extra windows' as much as possible, because I think that there is nothing more annoying than a new dialog box popping-up as a new window for every single feature...
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