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4th April 2006, 10:34 am by jkpieterse

OK everyone.

Here is a (poorly designed) chart showing the result so far.

It looks like the icons at the top are winning. I agree however that for beginners, buttons with text might be better.

I have cooked up an option D though. What about this one:

So which is it? A, B, C or D?

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
JKP Application Development Services

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7 Comments

  1. Alex J:

    How about a text/no text option switch ?

    4 April 2006, 10:56 am

  2. Andy Pope:

    How about making use of the picture property along with a caption. Setting the PicturePosition property to PicturePositionLeftCenter. The size of the button would slightly larger than those in your C screen shot. But there appear to be enough empty space at the top right.

    The option to display picture, text , picture+text would be a bonus.

    4 April 2006, 12:37 pm

  3. Tim:

    D clearly

    4 April 2006, 4:59 pm

  4. Christopher:

    Of those options, I’d plum for A (icon’s on top) - but Andy’s suggestion is worth exploring.

    As far as icons go, I’ve always wondered why the evaluate icon departs (only slightly) from Excel’s standard evaluate icon (Control ID 5687). A copyright issue?

    cheers,
    Christopher

    4 April 2006, 6:16 pm

  5. Jeremy:

    D

    4 April 2006, 7:11 pm

  6. Jon Peltier:

    I think the labels clutter the user form. Let people set an option if they want, but I think nice clear tooltips are adequate. I’ll stick with “Buttons top, icons, no labels”.

    4 April 2006, 9:31 pm

  7. jkpieterse:

    Alex: I am more and more inclined to do that one. Bit of work, but I think worth it.

    Andy: I think having both icon and text will make the buttons too wide to fit on the dialog. Especially the German “version” has long texts.

    Christopher: No idea why this icon differs, Charles designed some of them and I did the others.

    Jon: I agree, my vote goes to A or C, user selectable.

    4 April 2006, 11:49 pm

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