RE: A Survey: Do You Name Your Images in a Std Way?

["Steve Cavanaugh" <scavanaugh -at- nat-seattle -dot- com>]

If you name them as "Figure1, Figure2," etc. there is no question that
once you get to Figure 32 you'll have to insert a new figure between
Figure 3 and 4, and you'll be faced with either renaming all subsequent
figures, or leaving them incorrectly named.  Every dialog and window has
a name in the title bar - I use that because it always has direct
correlation, no matter where I use it.  But I like your idea of
including a version string as well.


Steve Cavanaugh


> Barbara Vega said about A Survey: Do You 
> Name Your Images in a Std Way?
>
> Hi all:
>
> When you write your documentation and you are making 
> images galore - whether it be an electronic document 
> (in Robo or >whatever) or PDF or what have you, and 
> you are making images as you go along going back and 
> forth to the software,going through it as you go 
> capturing and pasting and going through the steps and 
> putting the images in, do you name your images in a 
> standard way, or do you name them haphazardly?
> 
> For example:
> 
> Do you name them with some convention, like all the 
> buttons start with an abbreviation BTN-SOANDSO And 
> all the dialogs DLG-soandso? Or 4BTN-soandso - to 
> denote Version 4 of the software, etc?
> 
> Or do you just name them Figure1 Figure2 Figure 3 to 
> follow the numbers they are in the manual?
> 
> Or do you just name them something that describes 
> what they are like FlderView1, DialogUoponEntry,  
> LoginBtn, etc.
> 
> I am curious as to how many of us standardize this, 
> and if you find it helps.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Barb

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