PR# 10626 Please use buttons for the actions in the Open Project dialog

In the Open Project dialog, one of five Actions must be chosen.

The Actions are currently displayed in a drop down list. The advantage of using a list is that it occupies less screen space; but this is not an issue, because there is pleanty of room to increase the size of the dialog.

Please replace this list with a group of radio buttons. The advantages are:

1. It would be easier to navigate. Mouse users can select a different action with a single click; keyboard users like me can very quickly Tab to the desired radio button and select it with the Spacebar. In both cases, this would be considerably more efficient than manipulating a drop-down list box.

2. We would be able to see at a glance what all of the possible actions are. As it is now, we have to open the list to find out what actions are available.

An even better alternative, I think, would be to get rid of the Actions altogether. Instead, place four more buttons at the bottom, to the left of the "Open" button, so that there would be six buttons at the bottom of the dialog:

  Open Compile Freeze Finalize Precompile Cancel

I believe this is a better idea than radio buttons. It's simpler. It uses less screen space. You could put your pretty icons on the buttons. And it fixes the current problem that it's pretty silly clicking an "Open" button in order to, say, "Compile" a project!