[Babase] Re: Enhancements to Ranker

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Tue Dec 4 10:30:33 EST 2007


On 12/04/2007 08:31:38 AM, kfenn wrote:
> Michael Altmann wrote:

>> Alternatively place the stats in a seperate, recallable window. A  
>> 'Fit' vs
>> '100%' zoom option might work too, but these options are less urgent.
>> 
> That's for Duke to explain, but we were having problems not seeing  
> all the snames in the columns and rows.

Sometimes there are too many individuals being ranked and the
matrix won't fit on the screen.  This makes it difficult
to envision the entire matrix and so to fiddle with the
rankings.  A proposed solution was to "shrink" the window
content to fit the screen.  This would make it
more difficult to make any
changes, the mouse targets would be smaller
and perhaps the individuals names would be
too small to read, but an easy way to flip the 'zoom'
off and on would mitigate that.  Because the matrix
cell content is minimal the overall
"shape" of the matrix should remain visible when "zoomed".

I imagine this would especially be a problem when the
rankings are done for larger than 1 month (6 months)
time period.

Another thought.  Using greyscale/color in the matrix
as background or instead displaying digits would make
the matrix even easier to visualize when "zoomed".

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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