Re: ... and now for something completely different: User Friendliness

[Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:10:28 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

>> I like the defcustom syntax, maybe something like this would work:
>> 
>> (defcustom snmp-notification-trap 1
>> "The snmp trap notification"
>> :type integer)
>> 
>> (defcustom snmp-notification-inform 2
>> "The snmp inform notification"
>> :type integer)

Lars> That's possible, but it's quite verbose...

Might I suggest you write down a series of examples of what you want
the output or presentation to the user to look like, and then from
that we can look at the best way to model the questions.  IE, write a
concrete text description of a particular wizard-like function and
what the results should be after the user has answered the example
questions.

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