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DHO800/DHO900 suggestions thread
ebastler:
A radio button with only two options. Framed by a good handful of the switches they use everywhere else. Oh well...
thm_w:
Just need a dropdown with only two options being On and Off for the trifecta.
Fungus:
The other big suggestion would be to make the DHO00/900 sidebar work like the DHO1000/4000 sidebar with name/value on the same line:
DHO800 with a LOT of wasted space (literally half the sidebar is just gray space):
DHO4000 (much more compact vertically, can fit more than 1 stat on screen):
mwb1100:
Radio buttons and checkboxes are much better than the large "switches" especially when you have a complex UI that apparently needs a ton of them.
Just because Android phone UIs typically use "Fisher Price" GUI controls doesn't mean they are the right thing for a complex instrument. Phone apps generally have fewer options than an oscilloscope. And when phones do have many on/off choices, they use scrolling to navigate the list of switches. It doesn't look to me like Rigol have used scrolling anywhere (am I wrong about this?). Maybe they should, but I'd guess that would make things worse - both for usability and discoverability. With an oscilloscope you are often changing these settings for each measurement you want to do. Phone apps usually have their settings accessed infrequently.
And if you're going to go with those huge switch controls, what's with the idea that left should be "on" and right should be "off"? That's the exact opposite of Android's Material Design standard on/off switch control. It would make this device's UI jarring and confusing for most users since it would be the opposite of every other device they use. It's one thing Rigol got right - don't ask them to change that.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on October 14, 2023, 12:10:08 am ---Radio buttons and checkboxes are much better than the large "switches" especially when you have a complex UI that apparently needs a ton of them.
--- End quote ---
There obviously is some personal taste involved here. I do agree that the switch shape which Rigol chose is too large, and not immediately recognizable as a switch. Both, Android and iOS, tyically use the much smaller, rounded shapes, with a circular "handle" -- more layout-friendly and more obvious.
I strongly disagree with the use of radio buttons in place of a simple on/off switch. Radio buttons are for "1 out of N" selections, with N>2, in my book.
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