Re: Feedback from recent training

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 20:03 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 17:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> >
> >> > Alphabetic seems best, whatever kind of type they are.
> >>
> >> No, because that mixes in the array types which we know causes
> >> confusion for some users. We need to alphabetise them with the
> >> non-array types, but thats likely to be messy.
> >
> > How about an extra radio button for Array/Non-Array? That removes the
> > confusion.
>
> I assume you mean a checkbox? We could have a global option to include
> array types, defaulting to off. Few-enough people probably use array
> types that overall it would make the experience nicer.

Well, I meant that you would select two things:
 * Base Type (List control) e.g. Integer
 * Array or Not (Radio Button) e.g. Non-Array
which would then result in a non-array Integer. So the radio button
alters the meaning of the item selected from the list box.

I understand what you mean also, which is a check-box to decide whether
to include the Array variants in the List or not.

Right now I guess I prefer my version, but that's no big surprise. ;-)

Whichever we pick, the main thing is to make this List and perhaps *all*
similar lists, if any others exist, have just a single alpha-sorted list
of items, so that people never get confused about whether items are
present or not.

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