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various questions about finalizing my project
wp:
--- Quote ---I have several charts. However, using TAChart, I discovered there is no easy way (like in Delphi, if anyone remembers) to apply labels to them. At first I realized that I need to drop a component TAChartSource, but when I tried to edit it, I saw there is a fixed limitation - it allows only one bar to be labelled, which is more or less useless.
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Please be more specific. The attached screen shot shows that it is possible to add labels even to a stacked series in a regular way.
marcov:
--- Quote from: jagnje on February 28, 2015, 11:11:14 am ---
10. My app has no menus, generally I detest menus and want to have visual control over all settings. is this generally ok? I am also using a lot of colors? I should probably not overusing it, right?
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Just my view: while I am neutral on menus vs buttons, I detest iconic buttons. In systems with buttonbars with icons I seem to forever looking at the hints to see what they mean. From the icons I eventually use,
I use them more because I remember their place, then because of their picture.
So whatever you do, don't use icons, use buttons and controls with text. At least a certain percentage of users must feel exactly like me :-)
jagnje:
--- Quote from: wp on March 02, 2015, 11:16:23 am ---Please be more specific. The attached screen shot shows that it is possible to add labels even to a stacked series in a regular way.
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Indeed. I forgot to mention that I need labels on x-axis to determine what each bar actually represents. Labels on x-axis as even in your screenshot are completely useless... The label value itself is of less importance to me. Currently I am not even showing it, although that might change in a finalized product.
jagnje:
--- Quote ---Just my view: while I am neutral on menus vs buttons, I detest iconic buttons. In systems with buttonbars with icons I seem to forever looking at the hints to see what they mean. From the icons I eventually use,
I use them more because I remember their place, then because of their picture.
So whatever you do, don't use icons, use buttons and controls with text. At least a certain percentage of users must feel exactly like me :-)
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Indeed. My buttons are all textual and all controls are textual. What I meant with colors is that I use them to differentiate when displaying information, so that user knows which information pertains to each category. I am not overusing though, I have got around 4-5 categories. I really think that the user experience improves with a little bit of color-differentianing, but of course the customers will have the last say in this. For what is worth, i detest iconic button too. But in some controls (choose directory, choose date) they come in as a default and I think that I will let live those controls, they are absolute minority anyway.
I am sorry if my post was not clear on certain spots. Typing fast and making a lot of ambiguity, just like programming... cracked some bugs today so I am making nice progress. I attached my control bar, so that you guys can comment if anything is very wrong.
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