[Kmymoney-devel] Validation feedback for complex input

[Christian Dávid]

Hello,

I have a question: the forms for credit-transfers have input fields with 
"complex" validation schemes. Therefor I need a way to give feedback to the 
user.

So here are two mockups:

1) Shows an icon that indicates an error. More information is given by the 
tooltip. Saves space but not so convenient for the user.

2) The icon is shown below the input with an error description.
This can get confusing if all fields show an error [1].

What do you prefer? I cannot decide, or do you have even better ideas?

Other error/info messages could be: "Your transfer must be less than X EUR.", 
or "After this transfer the account's value will fall below 0,00 EUR", "The 
purpose must be at least x characters long.".

Greetings
Christian

[1] I would hide the messages in an intelligent way when the form is opened. 
So the user will not see "You must enter something" for each field.

P.S.: Some of this development could be used in other places as well :)
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