JSL Companion

7

Communicating with Users

Introduction

Introduction to Dialog Boxes

Messages and Dialog Boxes

Column Dialog Boxes

Dialog Boxes Using the New Window Function

Retrieve User Input

Interactive Displays

Design a Dialog Box

Deploy User Input

Introduction

Communicating with users belongs to the rubric of user interface (UI) design, also known as human-computer interaction (HCI). The primary goal of this chapter is to develop your knowledge of JMP functions and objects used to create UIs and learn how to apply them.

Being skilled with a language’s components is the first step of UI design: knowing what is available and how to use it. The second step is the design itself. We are certainly not experts on how to design a good interface. As users, we ...