Feature UI: 2 booleans on a row?

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• kori Onshape Employees Posts: 25

  August 2020 Answer ✓

  We currently don't support DISPLAY_SHORT for stacking checkboxes horizontally.  Our thinking is that checkbox options are easier to read when stacked vertically, especially when the text can be translated to a language that causes the labels to become longer and possibly truncated.

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,619 PRO

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  makes sense. Gotta prevent people like me from creating monstrous feature UIs 

  Evan Reese
  The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
  www.theonsherpa.com

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• alnis Member, Developers Posts: 452 EDU

  August 2020

  Interestingly, for Blender's 2.8 UI redesign, they organized all options/panels into a single column. They found that it's faster to find something by just scanning up and down (with labels on one side and values on the other) while having to scroll a longer distance rather than searching through a more dense/packed UI with less scrolling. It's a bit different from Onshape's system, but it's interesting to see the reasoning behind the choices for the redesigned UI. Here's a WIP update from the developers a couple years back, it's all implemented now:
  https://youtu.be/_WBqTeLcsxU
  

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,619 PRO

  August 2020

  @alnis_smidchens
  That's a great reference for me and lots of good ideas in there (Admittedly, I skimmed the video). I actually just last night was working on this feature UI (it's a long one) and ended up converting most of it to this single-column style to favor clarity over brevity, so this video is a nicely-timed confirmation of that decision. Thanks!

  Evan Reese
  The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
  www.theonsherpa.com

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