On Apr 13, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Jim Duffy wrote:
Well, the software I'm doing is for enterprise customers.. The PDA's
used
run only my software and the user base are mainly mechanical engineers
who
barely know what a PDA is.
"P. Douglas Reeder, aka Skapti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Jim Duffy wrote:
I want the icon to show if a field in my DB has a string within it.
One
the user taps it, I want to take them to a custom dialog to show the
record contents instead of popping up the standard "Tips" dialog.
Since the "i" icon normally brings up help, rather than details, you
may
confuse your users. I'd suggest a different icon or a text button.
Also,
Palm users are not accustomed to UI elements appearing and
disappearing,
so you're sure to get support calls from people who can't find this
button, because they haven't filled in the field yet.
Since your "details" button is enabled/disabled by a field, you want
the button and field right next to each other, enclosed by a border, to
show their connection.
I recommend, when no details are available and the user taps the
"details" button, you show an alert concisely stating what the user
needs to do to make details available.
If you must disable the button, make it a graphic button, and change
the bitmap to a greyed-out bitmap when disabled. (Palm OS does not
directly support greyed-out UI elements).
These are all straightforward to program, using well documented API.
While there is no support for borders as such, you just need to draw a
rectangle using low-level draw commands.
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