Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!transit3.readnews.com!textspool1.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "tar" Subject: Re: JTabbedPane-How to ch Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 36 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:51:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303919465 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:51:05 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:51:05 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:4527 To: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.l stacey writes: [Context: Swapping the row with the selected tab to be in front.] > This is my thesis, and i was told to do it. :S Too bad. Is it a central part of your thesis or just something incidental to the program you are writing as part of it? If this were from someone I was advising, I would be pleased if they would present arguments for why this was a bad idea. But I realize that not all supervisors are that reasonable. I think that this is a bad idea, because it makes what I feel is a unneeded and indeed unhelpful change in the layout of the window. Having the tab rows move around means that users can't learn, for example, that a particular tab is in the middle of the top row. Because sometimes it's there, and sometimes it's in the bottom row instead. And that placement may be determined by a choice completely unrelated to the tab in question. So it seems this particular design element will reduce the efficiency of the interface, reduce the benefits of learning to work with the software and generally move things around on the screen to the annoyance and possible frustration of users. OK, it's probably not quite that bad, but I don't see what BENEFIT you get from moving the rows of tabs. And I see a bunch of disadvantages. -- Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24