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<p>I am diving, and in between I am looking at the Subsurface code.
Attached a screenshot of a fully functional text edit widget to
enter atmospheric pressure.<br>
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<p>It works like this. If diver has the atmospheric pressure, this
can be directly entered into the text box. The combobox allows
choosing between entering a pressure value (mbar), or entering an
altitude in the measurement system defined in the preferences. For
Americans this would be feet. If altltude is entered, the mean
atmospheric pressure at that altitude is saved to the dive log.</p>
<p>The main problems are:</p>
<p>1) It is complex to move any of the edit boxes to a different tab
because the confirmation boxes and data checking are all executed
in Maintab. If one moves some of the text boxes to a different
tab, a duplicate system of data validation and confirm/reject
would be required. This makes it unattractive to move the edit
boxes out of the main tab.</p>
<p>2) If the yard stick is a minimum maintab screen width a bit
wider than the existing tabs (maybe equivalent to the existing
tabs plus another nonexting tab), then the attached image shows
that an additional edit box comfortably fits into the tab panel
with sufficient space to contain all relevant information. In the
previous version, the two temperature edit boxes (air & water)
occupied much more space than necessary to contain the
temperatures. The reason was very long titles above the edit
boxes. In my example, the titles for the 2 temperature edit boxes
are reduced to a bare minimum, to such a level that more
information is probably required. There are two options to do
this:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">a) Give the title
as "Water °C" or "Air °F". This is short enough to fit above the
respective edit boxes.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">b) Insert a row of
text at the top of the panel so that a word "Temperature(s)" can
fit ABOVE the "Water °C" and the "Air °F". This would slightly
reduce the vertical screen space available for the dive list.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">The reason why I
have a strong feeling that this should be on the Maintab is
because this information directly affects the decompression
ceiling calculated for a dive and any information that affects the
ceiling should be immediately visible on the Maintab.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Any suggestions are
extremely welcome.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Kind regards,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">willem</p>
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