[AccessD] About Manuals for your databases X posted

gustav

...interesting ...I've always used naming conventions to manage distinctions
like this but can certainly see some value in using color ...I'm rebuilding
a major client app over the next few weeks and I think it would be a good
time to try this in my templates ...tks :)

William Hindman
"Always code as if the person who is maintaining or testing your code is
a violent psychopath who knows where you live." William Silverstein


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] About Manuals for your databases X posted


> Hi Joe
>
> > How many of you right them?
>
> I write old fashioned help files only. They load extremely fast and
> are quite easy to print out if a hardcopy is requested.
>
> > Do you right users and developers manuals that explain your hows and
> > whys?
>
> For users only as part of a project description.
> For developers (including myself!) only as in-line comments.
>
> > In my forms, I do things like make non-visible fields red and bold just
> > so they are easier to see if they are buried under other controls.
>
> I use these background colours with black text:
>
>   Yellow for invisible controls (mostly textboxes)
>
>   Cyan for invisible controls for either future visible use or which
>   previously have been visible (now invisible due to modifications of
>   the form layout) and with a possible future use, though such
>   controls must be tricky somehow, otherwise I just delete them.
>
>   Green for invisible textboxes containing a function which needs to
>   (and will) run when the form recalculates. These are rare.
>
>   Magenta for invisible labels with comments or as pointers to
>   controls hidden in design view by some larger controls.
>
> /gustav
>
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