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

["Joyce Fetterman" <Joycef -at- gtsoftware -dot- com>]

<< 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?>>


I'm the lone writer documenting our software, so I get to decide how I
want to name files. 

I place all images for a product in an Images folder and give them
meaningful names so that I can easily identify and re-use them. Images
of buttons are usually named btn_name, icons are icon_name, menus are
menu_name, etc. Most of the images are dialogs and I just use the dialog
name for those (select_data_source_field).

If the image changes for a newer release of the software and I still
need the old image, I'll append the version to the file name
(select_data_source_field_v33).

I can quickly scan the folder contents to see whether I have an existing
image or need to capture a new one.

Years ago I inherited image files that had random identifiers. I'll
never do that to myself. Why create meaningless names when it's so easy
to create useful names?

Joyce
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