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RE: documenting GUI components that are not labelled
Subject:RE: documenting GUI components that are not labelled From:Iggy <iggy_1996dp -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:22:09 -0800 (PST)
> There are no icons, buttons are labelled,
> but that's it. You could sort of consider listboxes
> to be labelled, by
> virtue of the fact that the first item in the
> listbox is selected
> automatically. There are no tooltips, no popups, b/c
> it's a non-pointer
> based environment. Maybe part of the problem (or
> most of the problem) is
> that the GUI design team was laid off.
Gee, ya think? ;)
What you have here is a great program with a horrible
GUI. Your company should be able to plainly see that.
I suggest you take someone else's advice and document
it as it stands... "The third field below the first
list box just to the right of the address button..."
This could be your chance to actually add input into
what these things should be named...
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