7 Apr
2005
7 Apr
'05
11:26 a.m.
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:42:49 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Yeah, although that could get annoying, and I think is probably contrary to HIG standards - if the application indicates that a feature is available but doesn't run it, then it opens the question in the user's mind about whether other features are going to actually work or not.
You could have the features available in the UI but disabled with (unavailable) next to them. So a menu option that needs libXYZ would show up greyed out as:
Import from -> Dia (unavailable)
There could then be an item under Help like "View unavailable features" with mini explanations of what you need to get for each one.
thanks -mike