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Message        Gavin          Post subject: Help me with better wording for 
this popupmenuPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:16 pm                         
Joined: Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:27 am
Posts: 55                Just wrapping up a little Mac app - but I'm struggling 
with the language that I'm using for the values inside a popupmenu.

In the screenshot, there's a menu beside the Regularly checkbox - at the moment 
it implies that, for example, 15 minutes after the user has checked the 
checkbox, then a reminder will be issued. What I'm actually trying to say is 
that a reminder will be issued every quarter past, half past, quarter to the 
hour, on the clock.

Does that make sense? My mind is blank on how to word it properly - ideas 
gratefully received.

      
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                             Top                kermit          Post subject: 
Re: Help me with better wording for this popupmenuPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:36 
pm                         
Joined: Mon May 30, 2011 12:56 am
Posts: 607                You started with a group called

'Send Reminders'

The Regularly option should then follow on with
  Every...
   and the popup menu has 15/30/45/60 minutes as choices


If the group is labelled 'Reminders'
Then the Regularly option becomes 'Frequency'
And the popup menu items stay as you have them.

I wouldn't worry about the fact that you mean 1:15  1:30  etc... only a handful 
of people would be expecting reminders to fire at intervals based upon (say) 
the time the app started up or the checkbox ticked.

(If the popup menu contained values less than 60 minutes, you could say 
'Minutes past the hour',but this is not possible with values like 'every four 
hours'  )   
                             Top                Gavin          Post subject: 
Re: Help me with better wording for this popupmenuPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:10 
pm                         
Joined: Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:27 am
Posts: 55                kermit wrote:You started with a group called

'Send Reminders'

The Regularly option should then follow on with
  Every...
   and the popup menu has 15/30/45/60 minutes as choices

Thanks, this is much simpler and nicer.      
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