Re: [Tracker] Tracker's GUI in C

["Jaime Frutos Morales" <acidborg gmail com>]

2006/9/11, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

> there are pros and cons to both. The size should not matter because we
> can default the window size to something that does not need resizing.
>
> The benefits of the tab/notebook are :
>
> 1) You can see which services have results and their hit counts
> immediately. Services that dont have any hits are not shown in the tabs.
> With combo you would have to iterate through each entry to see the
> equivalent

You can append the n of hits to the labels in the combobox and reset
them when hitting the search button.

> 2) its only one click to switch service view (compared to two with combo)

Right.

> 3) it remembers state so you could page through results in All Files and
> then view Documents and then back to All Files and page from where you
> left off.
This can be done as well using combobox due to the
model-view-controller paradigm.
> --
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/

The only reason that makes me prefer the notebook option is the
one-click style. If you decide to use the notebook option, please, add
a "Search button" at the top-right are of the window.
--
Jaime Frutos Morales
Systems Engineer
Blog: http://textoplano.livejournal.com