Re: Regular button inside a TreeView

[Martyn Russell <martyn 2 russell bt com>]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 20:41, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>  Sorry to say this, but it seems to be a very poor User Interface.
> 

I disagree.  Special cases may call for it.

I am looking to do this myself.  I have LDAP search results to display
and up to three telephone numbers to be able to dial for each row in the
treeview.  

>  Instead of doing this out-of-the norm interface, have you considered having
> your treeview be SELECTION_SINGLE and have a button somewhere else that becomes
> sensitive/insensitive when one row is selected/unselected.
> 

This takes up more space which could be used displaying the results.

>  IMHO, we try to come up with crazy interface that just breaks the users
> intuition and clogs out screen.
> 

If the user see's a button, it is intuitive to think you can click on
it.  If it is done by clicking the row THEN clicking a button somewhere
else that is too many clicks IMO.

Regards,
Martyn