developer.GUI.standards

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Purpose: codify standards for the GUI.

Audience: Autoplot developers

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Menubar
    1. An ellipses (...) after a menu bar item
    2. → should be used to identify menu bar items

1. Introduction

It's essential that standards be used in the GUI, and this is to identify a standard and to outline the ad-hoc rules used so far.

2. Menubar

2.1. An ellipses (...) after a menu bar item

An ellipsis (...) after a menu bar item name means that an additional dialog will be presented to get more information, and this action can be cancelled. The action may be to bring up a tool (Tools→Events List) which is used to perform actions. This should not have an ellipsis.

2.2. → should be used to identify menu bar items

→ should be used to identify menu bar items, like [menubar]→Tools→Events List. The [] indicates the known position which the human operator recognizes.

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