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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/9/2011 2:57 PM, Marco Mattila wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It looks good.  It certainly is a huge improvement over the old dialog.  Aside
>> from some minor alignment issues the only comment I have is what does the
>> "Apply Settings" button do?  If it just copies the dialog settings to
>> application variables, why not do this on close if there are any changes?  If
>> it does more than that, then a more descriptive button name may be useful.
> 
> The apply settings button is a remnant from the old dialog. I does
> what you thought it would do. I guess the original idea was to make it
> possible to close the dialog without saving some goofy settings.
> Currently the settings are "saved" when plot or apply settings is
> clicked. But you're right. We probably can survive without the apply
> settings button.

It's your call if you want to remove it or not since you are the one actually
doing work.  From a user stand point, it isn't obvious what it actually does
and the same thing is done (without the plotting) when the plot button is
pressed so it seems a bit redundant to me.  If the user changes the settings
without plotting, they could be updated when the dialog is closed.

Wayne

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> marco
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