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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Progress indicator/thermometers
Message-ID: <22272@imag.imag.fr>
Date: 5 Jun 91 21:16:56 GMT
References: <0B01FFFB.heus4c@outpost.UUCP>
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
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In article <0B01FFFB.heus4c@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
>I also like to use the users hilight color rather than a color of
>my choice.  With the hilight color I know the user likes that color.

Sorry Mike, but this is not because I like one color to 
hilite my text that I want to use it everywhere. 
Why don't you use the colors used by the Finder for the progress 
bar? They are light subtle colors and certainly can't annoy 
a user. Besides, because it looks like the Finder one, I 
can easily say it is a progress bar and more easily see 
what's happening if I'm far away from my screen. (Can you 
say CONSISTENT). BTW, please, use the Finder layout for your
progress bar. It really helps the user to know what's going on.
Of course, if Apple had the clever idea to do some nice
traps to do all this...

Arno.
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