re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology

Subject: re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:35:19 -0700 (PDT)


I
"select an application menu"
"click" an application button
"press" a keyboard key

--- "Christensen, Kent" <lkchris -at- sandia -dot- gov> wrote:
>
> re: When instructing the user to perform some action on the user
> interface,
> use the term "Select" rather than "Click," "Choose," or "Press."
>
> Bad idea, say I. "Select" is normally used rather interchangeably
> with

If the user can "press and key", I tell them which key to press,
usualy the Enter key or space bar, since sometimes the Tab key
doesn't act like "any key"

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re: Style Guide vs. GUI terminology: From: Christensen, Kent

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