•Re: Selecting Items Across multiple screen.

Aiyeee! What is that, some sort of torture test for your user/customer?

From human-interface perspective, for example, I dread having to change my TVGuide.com settings, because they present to me a list of about 800 channels that I may or may not subscribe to... initially all checked. I then have to go down and deselect all the pay-per-view channels, and the spanish channels, and a few others that I actually don't get.

And the problem is that each one of these selections requires an incredible eye-hand coordination... "move mouse, click, darn missed, move mouse some more, click again". Over and over and over again.

Please, for the love of humanity, provide some interface other than checkboxes! How about a multiple-select scrolling box, so at least I could drag through regions (or start/end click) to toggle them, provided my browser is smart enough?

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Re: •Re: Selecting Items Across multiple screen. by Anonymous Monk on Apr 23, 2004 at 17:03 UTC
Good insight! I cannot do the scrolling as this is very subjective and they are actually result of the browse/search, displaying very specific items and it changes on regular base. So checking item is subject issue rather than objective issue. -- Next screen selection may come from variety of point. So hidden fields will not work. --It seems that Cookies with CGI::Session etc would be the best way to go.	[reply]

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by Anonymous Monk on Apr 23, 2004 at 17:03 UTC

Good insight! I cannot do the scrolling as this is very subjective and they are actually result of the browse/search, displaying very specific items and it changes on regular base. So checking item is subject issue rather than objective issue. -- Next screen selection may come from variety of point. So hidden fields will not work. --It seems that Cookies with CGI::Session etc would be the best way to go.

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