Painful editing of class attributes (VW 2008)

[Petri]

Am a missing something? A step perhaps... Can there be only ten easy steps in this?

1. Organizer.

2. Classes.

3. Select a class.

4. Click Edit.

5. Choose the fill colour pop-up and see a list view of some colours.

6. Choose a Color Palette.

7. Click "Grid" button and see the Palette Manager window in Color List mode.

8. Click "Grid" button.

9. Choose a colour.

10. Say OK.

Easy peasy!

EDIT

11. Say OK.

Still way too easy.

Edited October 23, 2007 by Petri

[Christiaan]

You could cut a few steps out by Right/CTRL-clicking on the class in the Nav Palette.

[Petri]

Perhaps, but when I'm training new users, I think they need to first see the entire process with the simplest possible user interface. Shortcuts are not that - and not consistent, either.

[altoids]

I normally bitch and moan about VW's lousy UI design, but on this one, I think Petri is whack*.

You can complete the editing with 4 or 5 operation (3 or 4 mouse operation and hitting return twice) using VW12.5 on a Mac and see the entire operation. Any menu item that opens a dialog box requires 2 operations (selecting the menu, and clicking OK when finished) so noting takes less than 2 ops and 3 if you actually want to do something within the dialog box.

1) Tools>Organization... (1 click)

2) Classes, if not already selected. (0 or 1 click)

3) Double click on the class.

4) Choose the fill color you want from the pop-up color grid. (1 click)

5) Press twice.

Fewer than 1/2 the number of steps. Oh Petri...

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*Actually, I always think Petri is always whack, which is what makes this all so fun.

[Petri]

Try that with more than one active Color Palette. I thought we were supposed to have access to any number of them.

Returns are, BTW, counted as "clicks".