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> Hi, I have been "googling" this for a while, yet I can't find any
> answer. I'm looking for solid references to prove or disprove my opinion
> about some gui behavior.
>
> Let's say you have side by side list boxes. The left box shows available
> items, the right one shows the selected items. There are two buttons
> between these boxes. The top button says Add, the bottom one says
> Remove. When you select item from the left box of available item and
> click Add. The selected items appears in the right box.
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> Would you expect the items to be removed from the left box when they
> appear in the right one?
>
> My feeling is that they should, yet I can't prove it to my team and they
> can't prove me otherwise. Can anyone point me to a website that provides
> guidelines for using side by side list boxes???
I know from experience that this type of listbox control is used in the
Table Wizard in Microsoft Access, for choosing table fields. I just went
to look at it; the items are not removed from the left box when they are
added to the right one. So if you want to follow the example of a popular
software suite, there you go.
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