Subject: Re: FW: Commit -- Style dialog on Win32
rob.campbell@att.net
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 08:11:19 CDT
If the AW preview embedded in the dialog is like MS
Word's, then it is too small to truly communicate the
impact the change(s) will have on the document's
appearance. As I noted in my original comments, better
to preview changes in the actual document, even allowing
one to scroll through it.
Rob Campbell
> Quoting Piotr Sawuk <a9702387@unet.univie.ac.at>:
>
> > Just my humble opinion as a user.
>
> FWIW, the Unix dialog (which the win32 dialog should mimic) does auto-preview
> by embedding a version of abiword inside of a GR_Graphics drawing area. You
> make the slightest change to any setting and you see things automagically
> updated in the preview area. There are also separate character/font and
> paragraph previews. We're *very* much like MSWord's UI, which (IMO) isn't so
> bad in this case.
>
> Dom
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