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I'd like to make a suggestion that XY's List Management section could be greatly improved by having it come up in a single unified interface. Something similar to how XY's Configuration works would be fine, with a "tree" on the left which shows the detail section on the right.

I find that when I need to clear out list items, I often need to do it for multiple categories, and it's unnecessarily complicated to have to go into the pulldown menus for each and every one.

Given how Don likes to make the UI more efficient wherever possible, I think this would be an excellent candidate, and easily accomplished.


I would also suggest a master page in this UI, which has all the categories showing up as checkboxes (along with "check all" and "clear all" buttons) and a button to clear out the histories of all checked items.

I would also recommend a page almost identical (but in addition to) the master page, whose purpose is to indicate (via the same checkboxes) which lists XY should not remember in between sessions. This, actually, could be integrated with the master page (perhaps by having multiple checkbox columns).


So, to summarize:

- Unified List Management interface
- Master page to clear selected categories with a single click
- Page for lists to Remember/Clear between sessions.

Mesh wrote:I find that when I need to clear out list items, I often need to do it for multiple categories, and it's unnecessarily complicated to have to go into the pulldown menus for each and every one.

Given how Don likes to make the UI more efficient wherever possible, I think this would be an excellent candidate, and easily accomplished.

Something along these lines was discussed about four years ago in this thread http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=625 so a revison of how LM works isn't new...but I think it may be time to revisit the topic as you've done...Don said there were some technical issues back then so it may not be as easy as you think.

j_c_hallgren wrote:
Something along these lines was discussed about four years ago in this thread http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=625 so a revison of how LM works isn't new...but I think it may be time to revisit the topic as you've done...Don said there were some technical issues back then so it may not be as easy as you think.

Four years ago! No wonder I don't recall coming across something similar.

To my eyes, this would primarily require coding a UI box, not rewriting the entire system, but admittedly, that's without knowing how the code is currently laid out.

Mesh wrote:Four years ago! No wonder I don't recall coming across something similar.

Well, it even took ME a while to find it! Had to search for a few things before I found the magic keywords: "Prev Next"
I knew I had mentioned that more than once as interim solution to getting to other lists without having to repeatly deal with drop-down.

And that topic was about 2 yrs before you came on scene so you're excused for having no clue of it...it may have come up in the meantime under other titles, but that's the one I recall most.

I also brought up this matter in my thread called "Tough words about GUI" here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4405 and here's a screenshot that I used to illustrate my thought on List Management: http://i49.tinypic.com/m8k192.png