[austechwriter] Re: [old-austechwriter] Terminology - screen or window
- From: "Steve Hudson" <cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:42:02 +1000
This is where the Output character style comes in useful. I prefer Verdana
for this job, although Tahoma is also ok. Style up the references to all
screen objects in it.
For example, if / indicates the character styling boundaries
To reconcile timesheets, select /Reconcile > Timesheets/ and enter the
timesheet data. If /Hours/ is blank you receive a warning message, simply
enter the hours into the /Hours/ column as neccesary.
Steve Hudson
Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words for you.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mel
OK picture this.
I have a Reconcile Timecard screen where I can, strangely enough, reconcile
Timecards which is an entirely manual process using the information from the
screen. How do I talk about something on the screen without using a word to
identify that I am talking about a graphical artefact and not the act of
reconciling.
I think it is important to explicitly identify what you are talking about
and if you are talking about a button as opposed to a dialog why not use
those terms? Of course, this can be taken too far if applied to the extent
Stuart mentioned:
> You could even give each one a precise
> meaning and a neat hierarchical organisation that includes them
> all, but it's pretty unlikely readers will keep all the terms straight
> so why worry about it.
But I would rather say "click on the OK button" rather than "click on OK"
and make users figure out that I meant a button (rips the top of yet another
can of worms...).
-Melanie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael West [mailto:mbwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 4:33 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Re: [old-austechwriter] Terminology
> - screen or
> window
>
>
> > So how do I differentiate between a screen that displays
> customer details
> > and a button, tab, dialog, etc, called customer details?
>
> Well of course I don't know what you
> or your users need to do, but I do see
> a lot of user doc that wastes time talking
> about graphical artefacts when it should
> be talking about the contents of those
> artefacts.
>
> If I need water, I don't want someone
> to fuss about whether I want a cup,
> glass, jug, carafe, flagon or hogshead.
>
> --
> Mike West
>
> "I'll have just the one kudo, thanks."
> --D. Callegari
>
>
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