Goedzo?! NiMS Forum: Oms 3.0 user interface --- Help needed!

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Gereageerd door NiMS op :

Hello OMS users,

I am quite far in finishing the OMS 2.0 network, and I am planning to create the OMS 3.0 Windows client after that. For the win 3.0 client I'm looking for your help. I have added a lot of new features, but don't actually know where I should place them in the (old) 2.26 app. I've decided to do a rewrite of the complete application, and even create a new, easier to use, user interface.

The new oms network wil come with some new features, wich will be placed in the oms 3.0 client. Here is a complete featurelist (including the old features):

*User management (Create, Change, Delete)
*Offline Users Management (Add, Delete)
*Login,Logout
*Personall Messages (Send, Receive, Delete)
*Offline Messages (Send, Receive, Delete)
*Userlist (Online Users, Offline Users)
*UserInfo (Username,Firstname,Lastname,Country,e-mail)
*Find user
*Status (online,freeforchat,phone,toilet,gaming,eating,meeting,busy,away,donotdisturb)
*Display Names
*Hiding from Other Users
*Chat Window (Multiple users in discussion)

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My question to you all, how do I place all these features into the new client? And how do you want it to look?

Gereageerd door Budha op :

Do you want open or closed chat sessions?

Open sessions should be listed somewhere. Maybe below the online/offline users section.

Closed sessions should not be listed. Instead, participators should be able to invite another user to their session.

Gereageerd door NiMS op :

The chat sessions are closed.
You can create a chat, and than add people to it. People that are added, can also add people to it.

Gereageerd door Budha op :

So you can extend the normal IM window with an invite button. Quite simple.

Gereageerd door NiMS op :

Well actually I was thinking more to create a different chat window, wich you can also see wich users are currently in the chat. And that with on click on this user, you will start a private message with him / her.

Gereageerd door Budha op :

You could hilight the users for the active chat session in de OMS userlist in a different color. A bit like the mouseover but another color and multiple hilights.

Why would you wan't to add an extra list if there is already one available [Confused]

Guess what, you can click on those users and start a private chatsession with them!

I see no reason in complicating the program with more windows which do basically the same. Reuse is possible so why not do that?

[ 25-07-2002, 16:33: Message edited by: Budha ]

Gereageerd door NiMS op :

Why a chat userlist? You can create more chats with different users. When you have a chat other users can add user too! So there is no idea wich user is in what chat. I think a little userlist in the chat window will create the insight you want to have.