Then it's a good thing that no one, including myself, is proposing an
interface that would require anything higher than 640X480.
Frank Paris
marshalt@spiritone.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of IronWorks
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:10 AM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea
>
>
> *We* may be but there are others out in this big wide world - many new to
> scanning, to graphics. I'm sure there are those of us even besides Alan
> Tyson who do. I'm also sure that Ed wants to sell to these people as well
> as to those of us with higher-end equipment. After all, we
> already have the
> program and are no longer potential customers.
>
> Maris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Paris" <marshalt@spiritone.com>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:33 AM
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea
>
>
> | I'm sure we're all using at least 1280X1024 and so there is enough
> | real-estate so that the tabs won't overflow. (They don't
> overflow now, do
> | they? And they will take up less real estate by having them in one
> control.)
> | There are also two choices the programmer has as to the behavior of tab
> | overflow. One puts out multiple rows and the other puts an arrow at the
> | right that lets you scroll through the tabs. Both options are
> obnoxious in
> a
> | most people's opinions. Interfaces should be designed so that
> tab overflow
> | doesn't happen. One solution when there are a lot of properties
> is to have
> | nested tab controls, but this is a very thorny problem for programmers,
> not
> | easily kicked out in a weekend. The Microsoft SDK doesn't support it
> | directly, and I've seldom seen it implemented (I've done it,
> and know how
> | difficult it is).
> |
> | Frank Paris
> | marshalt@spiritone.com
> |
> |
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> | > [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Alan Tyson
> | > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:27 PM
> | > To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> | > Subject: Re: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea
> | >
> | >
> | > I should be happy to have a single group of tabs, provided
> | > that you don't use the dreadful standard MS tab system,
> | > where the tabs rotate apparently at random, so that I can't
> | > remember which ones I've just looked at.
> | >
> | > PS: I still remember & love 'Vuescan Classic' where all
> | > settings were visible on one screen at the same time. This
> | > meant driving the scanner and twiddling its output was
> | > analogous to a simplified NASA control centre with knobs &
> | > dials, rather than a TV remote control.
> | >
> | > Regards,
> | >
> | > Alan T
> | >
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: <EdHamrick@aol.com>
> | > To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> | > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:08 PM
> | > Subject: filmscanners: Need feedback on VueScan Idea
> | >
> | >
> | > > I'm curious what people think of the idea of having
> | > > VueScan with one tab visible at a time (i.e. not having
> | > > one group of tabs on the right and the preview/scan
> | > > visible on the left, but instead one grouping of all
> | > > the tabs).
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
