Lyle Fairfield <Mi************@Invalid.Com> wrote in message news:<Xn*******************@130.133.1.4>...
... information on how to find images on your computer ...
Vaguely wandering here, I find I use fewer images as times goes by. Words
are smaller, faster and clearer. A good application is a good application,
regardless of fluff.
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Lyle
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It's true that as users become more advanced they are less reliant on
fluff. Many secretaries who used to input data into DOS style forms
can input information on Access forms with unbelievable speed using
only the keyboard. OTOH, I used Alt-PrintScreen to capture images of
some forms, shrunk them to about 1:8, then placed the images on about
seven large command buttons for company higher ups to use. I also
used the form's ControlTipText to add information in addition to the
labels on the form. Guess what? They were more impressed by this
than anything else, even than what the database did! I'm still
shaking my head over that one. I have an mdb that runs automatically
each day. On the person's switchboard that is responsible for the
automatic update, the date and time of the last update shows up to
allay any fears they have about it not running. It paid off when the
switch to daylight savings time messed up the task scheduler on the NT
server causing it to stop running. When a status bar causes too much
of a performance hit a label whose caption shows which record of the
total number of records the code is working on makes the user feel so
much better. So my point is that although users don't need to see
more and more images, their perception of the application and overall
comfort level is tremendously enhanced by things that most programmers
consider unimportant.
James A. Fortune
