Re: What do you call something?

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SnagIT refers to them as a "Callout" which is pretty common in drawing
applications and flowcharts.

Hope this helps.

PT

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>wrote:

> I believe I've seen them referred to as "thought clouds".
>
> If the character is speaking, the "cloud" border is more defined and not
> "bubbly".
>
> What YOU should call it, I don't know.
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> Okay, you know how, for example, like in cartoons, when a character talks,
> the words are contained in some kind of like balloon type object  - anyway,
> they are surrounded with a semi-oval shape border with a pointed end that
> points to the character's mouth -
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> what on earth would you call that in documentation? Please no joke - I have
> several of these to describe - different colored ones mean different things
> and rather than writing the red
> "thing-a-ma-jig/doodad/whatchyamacallit/doohickey" means this, I would like
> to say the red <insert object name here> indicates that this is a warning,
> the green < > means this has been processed, etc.
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