There are a bunch of small things that drive inconsistency and frustration that could be cleared up with a simple style guide. The one that is bothering me today is the Edit Surface Hatch dialog. A drop down menu is not the solution when there is only 2 options - On / Off (None / Hatch in this case. It is annoying way to handle that interaction.
This pales in comparison to what happens next as a hatch that I have not selected is automatically chosen for me - then an error message appears telling me the hatch (that I did not choose is in Page Units.)
This could so be cleaned up by skipping the first box all together and just having the hatch selector - defaulted to NONE - then when I click on it - allow me to select the hatch I want - all in a single step.
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Tom Klaber
There are a bunch of small things that drive inconsistency and frustration that could be cleared up with a simple style guide. The one that is bothering me today is the Edit Surface Hatch dialog. A drop down menu is not the solution when there is only 2 options - On / Off (None / Hatch in this case. It is annoying way to handle that interaction.
This pales in comparison to what happens next as a hatch that I have not selected is automatically chosen for me - then an error message appears telling me the hatch (that I did not choose is in Page Units.)
This could so be cleaned up by skipping the first box all together and just having the hatch selector - defaulted to NONE - then when I click on it - allow me to select the hatch I want - all in a single step.
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