[etoys-dev] region codes

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Friday 07 Aug 2009 12:10:42 pm Scott Wallace wrote:
> Do we really want individual country names?  If it's a "region",  
> perhaps we should have categories more like North America, South  
> America, Europa, Africa, Asia?  Or if that's too coarse, in any case a  
> list of items with something more like thirty or forty entries.
Scott,

I find hiearchical or scroling lists (like in file list dialog) very annoying 
and inefficient for long lists. A simple list filtered by a visible and live field 
(as in Viewer but without having to wait for a ENTER key to complete filtering) 
is more efficient for long lists.

Subbu