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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Progress indicator/thermometers
Message-ID: <0B01FFFB.hhghhm@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 91 15:46:47 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <22272@imag.imag.fr>, gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) writes:
> 
> 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...

NOW it might be advisable to use the Finder's scheme, but before System
7.0, the Finder didn't use anything besides grey patterns.

I used the hilight color in Public Folder's progress dialog and didn't
get any complaints from people.  Maybe they all hated it, but nobody
spoke up.


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