[Qgis-community-team] one more macro - dialogs

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

One thing to bear in mind; in some cases the HIG (human interface
guidelines) on different OS's and desktop environments may cause
changes to dialog names and menu items. For exanple under Mac OS X the
'Options' dialog is called 'Preferences' and the File - quit menu is
QGIS - quit.

regards

T/m

On 6/21/08, Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:
> I started reviewing the work the documentation writers have been doing
> incorporating the macros into the manual.
> I have changed only a few things- thank you for a great job!
>
> I finally understand what  Stephan H. meant by a "dialog" macro. We
> often make reference to a dialog box by its title, however, the title
> does not usually coincide with any button or tool name (this is perhaps
> something to look into in the long term). So I created a \dialog macro
> that reproduces the title bar of the popup - blue background with white
> letters, no shadow because it is not clickable. I have implemented this
> in Chaps 3, 4.
> Please be sure to use the exact title so as not to confuse the newbie user.
>
> I am thinking we should include a reference for each time we say
> something like
> Open the \dialog{Layer Properties} dialog
> as help for the reader who may have forgotten how to do that.
> Then we can list just one time the various ways to open each dialog.
> Would there be any value in having an appendix to summarize all the
> dialog boxes?
>
> Tara
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