Re: Difference between a Command Button and a Label

"Tom Ellison" <tellison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have found that, to attract a user's attention, coloring a label is
quite superior to having a command button's nicer shape. For example, in
the header of forms, I place command buttons colored yellow. My users
know these buttons expose combo boxes used to filter the form, and they
change to pale green when a filter is active. Click them again and the
filter is removed, the combo box is made invisible, and it is yellow
again. This becomes quickly intuitive to my users. Usually after being
shown only once how to use one they know how to use additional ones
without asking.

I recommend you carefully consider having a standard set of colors for
labels, and use them instead of command buttons.

The buttons in my apps are the default grey and I see no reason to change
them. They all have legends to identify their purpose to the end user. I
once flirted with different colours but IMO you end up with a gaudy mess.
Colour is also not much use if any of your users have any degree of colour
blindness. And what happens if the users get used to one developer's colour
coding and then are faced with a different set from another?


Tom Ellison

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Why do you think that you have some sort of copyright over the use of colour
coding? I'm not trying to be hostile, just wondered.

Keith.


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