I don't think that OS builders should be design police. That implies that they know all the possible uses of the OS/device/platform and that these never change. ;-)
Guidelines are good, however, when a client would like a particular behavior that the users are familiar with from the windows environment I don't think that it is necessarily wrong on the Palm. More specifically, in our UI, if a user selects a value from a popup trigger then a corresponding popup describing related information is required/enabled. Otherwise it is inappropriate to select. Could be done another way, of course, but it seems cleaner this way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cooper Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:23 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: grey out for controls in palm > You would think the UI guidelines would have changed when they finally added > decent color capability to the devices. NOT using gray for disabled > controls is counter intuitive, if the capability is there. But the capability is not really there, is it? :-) I disagree with the term "counter intuitive", BTW. It may be counter to your experience, but UI conventions often have little to do with intuition. If you have never seen a greyed out control before, how do you know that means you can't use it? You have to learn that first. Whereas if the control is not there, the question never arises. I've always thought disabled controls were disallowed not because of B&W displays (you *could* still display them then), but because the UI was simpler to use without them. Cheers, Jim Cooper __________________________________________ Jim Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype : jim.cooper Tabdee Ltd http://www.tabdee.ltd.uk TurboSync - Connecting Delphi to your Palm __________________________________________ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
