A discussion happened today where a grid containing data, which ultimately had data attached to it, think master-detail type grids, and a question followed, so I thought I’d ask the question here in the hopes someone has an answer or some pointers.
If you have a problem where you’re wondering how should I do this so that the user will feel at home, or know the way to use my GUI, is there a website or something that you can go to in order to find typical ways to do stuff?
For instance, think of a grid where you can select a bunch of things and then afterwards process them.
Such a list can be done either by using checkboxes, or multiselect. Then someone says ‘We need to show history data for the selected rows’. Would a typical solution be sub-grids inside the original grid, which you can expand for the rows you’re interested in? Would it be a popup dialog that shows history data?
This question becomes very generic, I know, but does anyone know of any site that has things like this, even remotely useful?
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