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From: Elizabeth Muncher <elizabeth.a.muncher@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.com>
Subject: Re: Interface design question
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My experience with double clicking an object is that the object 
is "opened".  So my response was based on what I would expect 
if I "opened" a graph and looked inside it.  

I also think that double clicking on an object would be a way 
of "drilling down" to a more detailed view of the object.  A 
more detailed view of a graph would be its data.

As you say data should be coming from a valid source.  Why 
would someone want to access it?  I can think of two 
possibilities.  One is if the user entered the data, looked at 
the graph and realized s/he had made a data entry error.  
Second, the user sees the graph and wants to know what the data 
points are.

