Re: One question on the Restore window

Le 22/12/2009 10:39, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I worked today on the restore window. I added all the missing options
>> (with a release check for some of them), and I added sizers to have a
>> good UI. You can see the result in the screenshots attached (from
>> frmRestore_1.png to frmRestore_3.png).
>>
>> I have some problems with the UI of the backup TOC. I want to allow
>> users to restore only some selected objects of the backup. Right now,
>> the restore window allows only to restore one object, even if you
>> selected more than one. So I try to find a good UI for this. I see two
>> ways for doing it:
>>
>> * Keep the list, adding checkbox (see frmRestore_5.png).
>> * Replace the list with a tree (see frmRestore_4.png).
>>
>> The tree is more appealing, really simple to understand. Anyone who used
>> the backup window can use the restore window... Well, not really. If a
>> user wants to restore some tables but not the schema, he needs to
>> unselect the schema, and then to select the tables. It feels a bit
>> awkward to see the schema not selected when some of its own tables are.
>> Moreover, the list is really simpler to remember the order of the
>> objects (the tree kind of destroys the order). But this is not really
>> important. I'm much more bothered with the fact that we can have some
>> tables selected and that the schema they belong to is not.
>
> Following the design of the backup window is preferrable certainly.
> I'm not sure I'm too worried about the selection issue - most people
> will never use it I imagine, and if they do, they probably only want
> to restore a small number of tables, so deselecting the schema gives
> them a blank list to do that.
>

OK, I dropped the list, and I'll now work on the use of the tree widget.

Thanks for your answer.

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