Application Settings Guidelines
A short and sweet guide to creating the best settings for your app
Step 1. First, ask yourself: Should it be a setting?
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Step 2. Make sure the defaults are universally acceptable. Compatibility is key
Note: Simplicity is essential to the user experience. Wise words from Google:
If you still have lots of settings, group related settings together.
The number of items an average human can hold in short-term memory is 7±2. If you present a list of 10 or more settings (even after applying the criteria above), users will have more difficulty scanning, comprehending, and processing them.
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Step 3. Go over this checklist
Source: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/settings.html
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Useful and helpful guidelines. Good stuff :good:
It will be good to be sticked
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Just on the off chance...
Would any person know of a good class for handling BeginWaitCursor / EndWaitCursor. Which is:
- External to any one form.
- Holds a count of calls, so that cancels at correct place.
- Can be interupted, say to display a message, then shown as before.
- Works with a multi-thread application.
- If possible, locks user input when active. (like a model wait cursor)
- (etc)
Ben.
You may want to ask CharlyV in this forum - specifically this thread..
http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97029
We've been creating neat little system wait icons in there...
-JB
Like the idea of changing the wait cursor. (The word 'wait' seems slightly superfluous, since it's the only cursor...) Nice site, I look forward to seeing what response I get.
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Ben
Ok I understand that it's currently being reorganized. Looks to be pretty much done as far as new sub forums. I just have one question Why are they all viewable while in the main HD2 sub forum. You have the actual sub sections Windows development, Android, Meego...etc.etc. But then the sub sections with in those are also viewable in the main sub forum.
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Shouldn't those be collapsed?
The view in the new template is better than the old. We no longer support the old template...meaning, we're not going to update it, but of course we'll let people use it if they want.
Gotcha so it's a template issue. Never thought of switching to see. Figured each one would see the same layout and draw it the same way but with a different color scheme for the most pat.
I'll give it a try............
Yep that fixed it.
Windows Phone 7 Manager is a very simple app to help everyone to create application managers for WP7 platform. Visual Studio Express C# 2010 Source code is available, and it is extremely easy to understand. Enjoy!
The aim of the application is to be expanded by others maybe share our homebrew code, etc... I just exposed some of the wp7 platform capabilities with very few code lines.
Screenshot:
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Download:
http://ried.cl/mobile/files/wp7manager-1_0/WP7Manager-v1.0.0.0_source.rar
http://ried.cl/mobile/files/wp7manager-1_0/WP7Manager-v1.0.0.0_bin.rar
Future work:
Get more application details (along with the name of course...)
Real application deployer/updater
Fusion my standalone marketplace app with a manager (but it's a looooooot of work )
More info:
http://ried.cl/mobile/wp7manager.html
So, why did this not get more attention again?
I seen it the night he posted it, but then i never seen again. Here it is now again and works well, good application Eried!!
Determine which settings are allowed to use by your applications!
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Youtube tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBhk06xw8vQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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