Interface design copying Apple's address book

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi William,

I believe you just need to write a script that hides empty fields and  
sets the top of filled out fields to the bottom of other filled out  
fields (with a margin, probably). You probably want to group the whole  
thing and give the group scrollbars.

Actually, I hate the addressbook, because I never know where I will  
find the data I need and I have to activate the silly edit mode to be  
able to change something. I have a few addresses in it, but for the  
more serious stuff I'm still using my old perfectly working HyperCard  
stack, which I will probably convert to Rev anytime soon.

Please, don't use the geometry manager. The day will come that you  
regret using it.

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On 14 jun 2008, at 22:21, william humphrey wrote:

> I'm still trying to copy the way the apple address book works and  
> don't know
> how to make everything flow up to the top when only showing the  
> fields which
> have data.
> Maybe it can be done with grouped fields and the geometry manager?
>
> Making the edit section is not as difficult because everything is in  
> the
> same place except those little plus buttons that add a new field as  
> needed.
> The address book is such an elegant design I can't believe someone  
> with a
> lot more knowledge than me hasn't copied it already and put it on the
> RevOnline.
>
> Anyone have anything similar that would be simple enough for me to  
> learn
> from?