More reasons not to like the chart editor
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:35 am
When you show the editor to your client, it should not give the client an impression, that you just had no time to work on it.
- It is a sizable dialog, which you can reduce to the minimum size of just the caption bar. Why? It should not allow me to hide any controls on the form, while I am resizing it (ideally)
- When it is opened, it has a default size, which is not big enough, to show all the controls on all the tabs. In particular, the "Text" tab, wherever shown, is missing its bottom part, and client just has to read your mind and know, that there are more options outside of the screen.
- Controls just run into each other, hiding parts of the text, so you have to use your imagination to read, for example, the word "Logarithmic" on the Chart->Axes->Scales tab, or the word "Style" on the Chart->Axes->Labels->Style tab.
- Did I mention 5 rows of tabs in some cases, but 3-4 rows is a norm? Do you really expect people to remember where all this stuff is hidden?
- Task-bar buttons are created for each pop-up sub-dialog, and some of those dialogs have an icon, other than my application's icon (no icon would be fine, but some other icon is not acceptable)