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Subject:Interface design/field lengths From:Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 6 Mar 1996 22:36:02 +0100
Hello Chris,
* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Chris Hulin an All am 24.02.96
CH> From: Chris Hulin <chrish -at- spidernet -dot- com -dot- cy>
CH> One of the problems I have is how to fit all the
CH> fields into a window of reasonable size
<sarcastic mode on>
I cannot see your problem: An old rule-of-thumb is to put 7 +/- 2 elements on
any single screen. These should fit nicely on a 800 x 600 screen...
<sarcastic mode off>
If you have this problem, chances are good your screens are quite crowded.
Many fields allow to shift the contents out of the viewable part of the
window, but I generally think you should not use techniques like this.
Greetings from Germany,
Alexander
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