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Subject:Re: Bitmap Usage From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:27:02 +0800
Chris Vickery said:
> Some of my documentation has to describe really non-standard icons.
> There are some that it is very hard to even tell what they are,
> because they are very small (an hourglass with an arrow inside it?
My guess would be:
"Your cursor will be locked up for the next three minutes--have a break"
Other useful icons in this series could be:
Coffee cup with an arrow inside it:
"Your cursor will be locked up for the next ten minutes--have a coffee"
Vitruvian Man with an arrow inside him:
"Your cursor will be locked up for the next ten seconds--lean back and
have a really big stretch"
Stuart
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