At 1:15 PM -0700 10/16/02, Mark Gurries wrote:
Bob Jacobsen wrote:
>Currently, a yellow color for a value indicates both "read from file,
not known to be the same as in the decoder" and "edited, not yet
>written". ... Perhaps it would be clearer to
>people if those two states were different colors. Then you could
recognize the "edited" state, which generally means "you have to
write this before the change takes effect". Would orange be a good
color for that?
How about flashing yellow? Catches the eye easily and works for color
blind people.
Unfortunately, flashing is hard to do. You have to manually program the on/off cycle, as the look&feel support doesn't have flashing built in. But this is fortunate, in a way, as screens with lots of flashing text seem pretty hard to read.
Color blindness is a real concern, which is why we don't use green to indicate anything. The green/yellow distinction on a LCD is particularly hard for too many people. But orange/yellow seems OK, esp. when both are visible.
The other part is to let the user know they need to make the save. Perhaps flash or highlight the write buttons under these conditions so
one does not have to hunt down the pane involved.
Coloring the write buttons is a good idea. I'll look into that.
Bob
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