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TP4 Grouping
jason_the_adams
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Hello to all,
Working on various panels, I began to wish the popup grouping within TP Design had a bit more capability, and moreover, a stronger organizational purpose. On small designs, it's no problem; however on larger and more complicated panels I would have liked to be able to group popups without making them necessarily mutually exclusive. Also, it would perhaps be a plus to have more control over the mutually exclusive properties of grouping (I.E. three popups in the group and 1,3 are exclusive; 2,1 are excluseive; 2,3 are not.)
I did already discuss this possibility with the head-programmer I work with and he wasn't nearly as keen on the idea as I was; from a programming standpoint he was definitly right; from a designers standpoint, I knew at the very least methods of organization is a pleasant capability to have. Furthermore I know that too much capability on the panel's side would be a problem during connectivity timeouts, in which case the previously requested time-out message in the panels would be nice.
All in all though, I think it's most likely I'm just being anal about organization. I don't think my idea is perfect, but I do wonder if anyone else has had any thoughts about this; perhaps more refined than mine?
Working on various panels, I began to wish the popup grouping within TP Design had a bit more capability, and moreover, a stronger organizational purpose. On small designs, it's no problem; however on larger and more complicated panels I would have liked to be able to group popups without making them necessarily mutually exclusive. Also, it would perhaps be a plus to have more control over the mutually exclusive properties of grouping (I.E. three popups in the group and 1,3 are exclusive; 2,1 are excluseive; 2,3 are not.)
I did already discuss this possibility with the head-programmer I work with and he wasn't nearly as keen on the idea as I was; from a programming standpoint he was definitly right; from a designers standpoint, I knew at the very least methods of organization is a pleasant capability to have. Furthermore I know that too much capability on the panel's side would be a problem during connectivity timeouts, in which case the previously requested time-out message in the panels would be nice.
All in all though, I think it's most likely I'm just being anal about organization. I don't think my idea is perfect, but I do wonder if anyone else has had any thoughts about this; perhaps more refined than mine?
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I would not object to there being two independent group types: one that functions strictly as a label and forms a logical group; and another that determines priority and exclusivity.
I have sort of modified how I deal with the groupings on the panel design less from a 'system-function' stand point and more from a layout standpoint.
So my groups are typically something like 'Navigation' 'left popups' 'right popups' 'whole page popups' ...
as apposed to 'video routing popups' 'audio routing popups' 'HVAC popups' etc...
I then do the true management of the popups in the program. Inotherwords making sure that one popup is mutually exclusive or always inclusive with another.
As with all things like this... 'One size fits most but not all'