[IxDA Discuss] select exact number widget?

[Mark Schraad]

No doubt... not so much a solution... but a temporary work around.  
We'll fix it in iterative releases. Scrum/agile/extreme and all  
that... right?

On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Mona Singh wrote:

> It would be better to prevent the user from selecting more than the
> limit. Way too many extra steps here.
>
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>
> We have implemented a solutions that, as the first "over the limit"
> box is checked, we display a dhtm layer with a message (which would
> you like to deselect) and the selected choices shown. It anything but
> elegant... but it works as a stop gap.
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Victor Lombardi wrote:
>
>>
>> Has anyone seen effective UI widgets for selecting an exact number of
>> choices greater than 1? Radio buttons do this for 1, but it seems
>> we have
>> no standard for "Select two and only two choices."
>>
>> writeboard.com does this for comparing two versions of a document
>> you'd
>> like to compare. They use check boxes, and if a third choice is
>> made the
>> UI unselects the other two.
>>
>> Conceptually, an option I'm considering is like selecting two
>> apples from
>> a pile of apples at the market, as you select them they are moved  
>> away
>> from the group. So the shopper understands you can only pick two, the
>> apples are moved into an area just big enough for two apples. This
>> approach requires a way to unselect as well; with checkboxes that's
>> already familiar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Victor
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