Button Bars and Icons, Custom Functions, and Persuasion
Some outside the box thinking on button bar icons by Gary Salem at Philly FileMaker (and there’s a downloadable file at the link):
While we were going through user acceptance testing, one person said, “Boy it would be nice to have a shopping cart icon on the review button.” I agreed with him. However, to my dismay, I found I couldn’t add an icon to just one segment of the button bar! Either they all had icons, or they all didn’t.
Source: Button Bars and Icons « The Philly FileMaker User Group
If you come across the need to set a variable by name, Kevin Frank has the solution for you. Frank rebuilt a cust
om function from BrianDunning.com, and even provides a download file in addition to instructions.
Be More Persuasive by Answering These 3 Questions
- What do I want my audience to think by the end of this presentation?
- How do I want them to feel afterward?
- How will they act differently if they implement these ideas?
Analysis: True
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine