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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Default buttons under 2 or ^
- Summary: Does it follow the style guide?
- Keywords: buttons default style look interface
- Message-ID: <BzBrzI.GME@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 23:59:40 GMT
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- Hey, folks. I've been looking for a nice, standard way of displaying a
- default response for requesters and options panels on the Amiga for a
- while now, but recently I saw something I liked, and I was wondering what
- people in general (and especially CBM if their employees have any time to
- think about this sort of thing) think of it.
-
- The idea is to draw a sunken borderbox around the gadtools gadget that
- will be "hit" if the return key is pressed, to indicate that that is the
- default response. I think it looks very clean and that it doesn't clutter
- things up on the screen, in contrast to the standard proposed by many
- programs, which is to place the text for the default response button in
- bold. I find it extremely ugly. So my question is, what do people think
- of this idea, and does anyone know why the style guide would complain about
- it? I've looked through it (read it from cover to cover, in fact), but I
- haven't noticed anything in there on this. Thanks for your response!
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