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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference

Adjustment Techniques

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Description

Adjustment techniques are variants of other group techniques. The user uses adjustment techniques to adjust the group of elements in the current selection region. Adjustment techniques have both click and swipe variants, as follows:

Adjust click techniques
The group is adjusted by taking a discrete action at a single adjustment point.

Via the mouse
Click the ADJUST button at that point.

Via the keyboard
Press Shift Select at that point (use Space or Ctrl Space instead of Select if there is no Select key).

Adjust swipe techniques
The group is adjusted by taking a continuous action between an initial and final adjustment point.

Via the mouse
Press, move, and release the ADJUST button.

Via the keyboard
Navigation augmented by the Shift key.

When to Use

Required
If you support a group technique, support its corresponding adjustment technique variants.

Required
Allow an adjustment technique to be used if and only if the previous selection technique used in the scope was:

  1. A point technique

  2. An associated group technique

  3. Another adjustment technique associated with the same group technique

  4. A margin or multilevel technique associated with the same group technique (for example, allow only the range adjust click technique to be used after a point, range [click, swipe, click adjust, or click swipe], or a range margin/multilevel technique)

    5. Guidelines

    Required
    When using an adjustment technique, if the current selection region is selected instead of toggled, the following should occur:

    1. Select all the elements in the new selection region.

    2. Deselect all other elements in the scope.

      3. Required
      When using an adjustment technique, if the current selection region is toggled instead of selected, the following should occur:

      1. Elements added to the selection region become toggled, based on the toggling policy.

      2. Elements removed from the selection region have their state determined by the toggling removal policy.

      3. The state of all other elements in the scope are unaffected.

        4. Essential Related Topics

        For more information, see the Area Adjust Click Technique, Area Adjust Swipe Technique, Range Adjust Click Technique, Range Adjust Swipe Technique, Selection Policies, Selection Techniques, Touch Adjust Click Technique, and Touch Adjust Swipe Technique reference pages.

        Supplemental Related Topics

        For more information, see the Selection Models and Selection Modes reference pages.

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