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Subject:RE: The opposite of greyed out is... From:"DanG" <dangarza -at- houston -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:35:47 -0500
The only thing that comes to mind would be "enabled" or "not enabled" and
give a note that says when its not enabled its either grayed out or
highlighted.
Dan, the unemployed tech writer.
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Kenneth M
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:30 PM
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Subject: RE: The opposite of greyed out is...
Rebecca Hopkins asked...
>
> ...active, BUT...
>
> What if one button has three states?
>
> Greyed out if X = 0
> "colored in" if X = 1
> Clickable if X < 1
>
> And no, I've never seen anything like it and I don't think I can
convince
> them to change it.
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> Rebecca
>
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