Re: buttons again

[Scott Furry <scott wl furry gmail com>]

On 24/08/14 10:23 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, Scott Furry wrote:
> > I've always thought of the "abc" button as "apply to all tracks". 
> > e.g. If you are editing a few tracks and change the album name on 
> > one, clicking the "abc" button causes the album name to be propagated 
> > to all selected tracks".
> >
> > And a keyboard short cut for "apply all" would be nice (rather than 
> > tabbing through - if tab order is set).
>
> Indeed, verified. How very interesting, how did you figure that out!?
> ...
> I could not fathom that!
> I am truly amazed, I failed after all these mental work. How do you 
> get the remotest idea of the true purpose of "Abc" button? You must be 
> a programmer - all programmers think alike, in a mysterious way!
I can't recall if it was experimentation or searching/documentation that 
got me there. Mind you that was the "previous incarnation" of the buttons.

I remember reading this whole chapter in a LabView programming book that 
discussed the various "mental models" of how a program worked and was 
developed (user's, programmers, et al). Who knew there is a whole 
discipline dedicated to the psychology of the user interface?

Short story...someone writes the code...someone should at least have a 
faq/document describing the function.
Sadly it doesn't always work that way, even with non-open source code. :(

Play...Experiment.
If you haven't blown up an operating system lately...you haven't been 
trying hard enough ;-)

Scott