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Subject:Names for GUI bits and actions From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Sat, 15 Jul 1995 12:04:55 +0800
Whenever I'm stuck over what to name an action or object on a GUI
screen, I check the Motif Style Guide. You don't have to follow their
advice, but they nearly always have a name for what you're after.
The details are:
OSF/Motif Style Guide
Open Software Foundation
Prentice-Hall Inc.
ISBN 0-13-640491-X
My copy is Revision 1.0. I hear there is a new version out.
Regards
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Stuart Burnfield (slb -at- fs -dot- com -dot- au) Voice: +61 9 328 8288
Functional Software Fax: +61 9 328 8616
PO Box 192
Leederville, Western Australia, 6903
