LitusSaxonicum
Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 2391 Location: Yateley, Hants, UK
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Simon,
The flywheel in my car keeps the engine rotating between mouse clicks, or as they are more commonly called, piston strokes. It's more important in a single cylinder engine, as without it you can't do a compression stroke.
I've now taken my own advice on drop down lists, and it is an improvement in usability when selecting an option (it was so easy in the past to include a number in an input file, and to translate that into a choice in the program); but when it is an actual number that is required, the spin controls are still useful, such as 'number of iterations'.
On the other hand, pre-definition of something, e.g. 'number of structural members' makes that old datafile type of input simpler, but when doing graphical input, it is easier just to keep track of additions and subtractions and make the number a derived quantity not a prescriptive one.
Eddie |
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