Post by jeffrey on Oct 3, 2011 14:18:47 GMT -5
Hello
Great program. I guess this msg falls under the "feature request - UI" category...
After updating to the latest premium version, I became quite irked when, after opening the Charger window, I could not use the "Load" button!! You can imagine, I have all these saved charges on a thumb drive and all I get from the "Load" button is "No files found!". That is an entirely unhelpful handling of a situation.
It took me a while, but finally I figured out that the program expects to find saved charge files in the pre-made "Charges" folder in the install directory. If there are no files there, you get the useless dialog, instead of a useful "File Find" dialog box.
IMHO, a good UI shouldn't "expect" anything. Always let the user choose, please!
So I made a dummy charge and saved it to the "expected" folder. Once I had something there - of course - now I can use "Load" to access the "File Find" dialog to navigate to where my collection of saved charges are located. Which brings me to....
It sure would be nice if the program would remember where I last saved my cocktails and charges. I don't like that the default behavior of the program is to always place me at the pre-made cocktails and charges folders in the program install directory. I know that Win7 makes it easy to add often used folders to the "Favorites" list, but still, at the price - I think your code could do that and save me the clutter in my "Favorites" list.
My two cents worth...
Jeffrey
Great program. I guess this msg falls under the "feature request - UI" category...
After updating to the latest premium version, I became quite irked when, after opening the Charger window, I could not use the "Load" button!! You can imagine, I have all these saved charges on a thumb drive and all I get from the "Load" button is "No files found!". That is an entirely unhelpful handling of a situation.
It took me a while, but finally I figured out that the program expects to find saved charge files in the pre-made "Charges" folder in the install directory. If there are no files there, you get the useless dialog, instead of a useful "File Find" dialog box.
IMHO, a good UI shouldn't "expect" anything. Always let the user choose, please!
So I made a dummy charge and saved it to the "expected" folder. Once I had something there - of course - now I can use "Load" to access the "File Find" dialog to navigate to where my collection of saved charges are located. Which brings me to....
It sure would be nice if the program would remember where I last saved my cocktails and charges. I don't like that the default behavior of the program is to always place me at the pre-made cocktails and charges folders in the program install directory. I know that Win7 makes it easy to add often used folders to the "Favorites" list, but still, at the price - I think your code could do that and save me the clutter in my "Favorites" list.
My two cents worth...
Jeffrey
