This past week in Glimmer, in addition to helping partners with their projects, I have been working on some more details of the self-disclosure implementation. I have been adding disclosure messages for more actions, and I am currently struggling to deal with a problem with slider bars. When a user slides a bar, the context … Continue reading »
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Implementing Self-Disclosure “Hacks”
In order to produce self-disclosures, we need to capture actions in the GUI. To do this, I have explored how the GIMP represents actions. It does not store them internally, but rather functions handle events triggered in the UI. I am adding self-disclosure to these functions and will continue to learn more about signal handling … Continue reading »
Self-Disclosing Design Tools
We need to encourage more people to use interactive application scripting in addition to the GUI. Users with little programming experience might be intimidated by using or writing scripts. One way to help familiarize users with scripting is through self-disclosing tools. We will display scripting commands that correspond to graphical manipulation. These actions, represented as … Continue reading »
