[opensource-dev] Open Inventory Transfer

[Teravus Ovares]

One way to eliminate the possibility of accidental transfers is a
mandatory confirmation window on the transfer when it's done via
dragging an edit window.   When the item is dragged, a confirmation
box wouldn't be necessary..    just when dragging the window.    On
the other hand, I don't know of any other interface that creates
actions upon dragging a window.

Regards

Teravus


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ricky <kf6kjg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very good question, and was the reason for my note bout accidental
> inventory transfers.
>
> The solution I alluded to was to pop up an "are you sure" style dialog
> box.  However, I hate those with a passion.  So I'm fishing for more
> optimal solutions.  It is possible there may be no good solution to
> this difficulty, but at least it will have been discussed, and may
> spawn other improvements or be revisited later.
>
> Ricky
> Cron Stardust
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Baloo Uriza <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:25:05 -0700, Ricky wrote:
>>
>>> Well, she was recently instructed by my dad (an advanced user like
>>> myself) to send him a notecard she was editing.  She asked how.  My dad
>>> instructed her to "drag it to the IM window."  This she knew how to
>>> find.  She then complained that it didn't work.  This brought me to look
>>> at what she was doing.  She was trying to drag the notecard edit window
>>> onto the chat popup to send him the notecard.
>>
>> Sounds like your mom might also be relatively inexperienced with working
>> with subwindows as well.  However, the instructions given to her could
>> have been slightly more clear as well; "drag it to the IM window from
>> your inventory" might have worked better.
>>
>>> Because of this, I would like to put forth the suggestion for further
>>> study of allowing the user to drag asset windows (notecards, textures,
>>> etc.) onto the varied existing ways of sending content. (IMs, Profile
>>> pages, etc)
>>
>> How would you differentiate someone trying to reorganize subwindows
>> within a viewer with inventory transfer events, then?  I think that
>> problem makes this suggestion entirely unworkable in practice.
>>
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