Open egekorkan opened 1 month ago
I think the idea of having more functionality is fine. About to "use" the +
button I am not so sure. Do people understand that there is a right click? This expectation does not exist for web applications ... I think.
Maybe we can have a pull-down menu next to +
that allows more.. just an idea.
Yeah I am also not sure about the UX about hidden clicks etc. v
button for a pulldown makes also sense or simply another button with a convert meaning. Alternatively, the + button can enlarge when the mouse hovers over it.
Considering the feedback and the conversation with @egekorkan , we came up with the following ideas.
+
button as a quick access option.Just one thing about the error: it should be a text field since we can dump long error messages there.
Many thanks for this UI preview. Here are some comments.
Hey @sebastiankb and @egekorkan, thank you for the feedback.
+
button, I forgot to explain that the import button will only appear once the user has hovered over it. This way we can avoid one extra click, while still providing an option to open a default TD or to open the import window. What do you think about this approach?
In a discussion today, we had the idea to put more functionality to the
+
button where other formats can be given in a small pop-up window. For now, the easiest would be to add AID to TD converter in there and allow AID as an input. In the future, we can have OPC UA Nodeset file, Open or Async API converters. The editor field below will still just see TDs.So the workflow would be: