From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Yury Sidorov wrote:
> > - Different size of buttons. They must be the same size, except some
> > special cases where caption is long.
> I think this is not good practice. How do you decide when the caption
> is
> too > long seing the captions are translated too.
I can say based on my experience only small number of buttons need to be
wider
due to translated text size. I always use 75x23 px buttons if possible.
75x23
buttons is default in all MS programs.
Most buttons in my programs need to be 100x25. Dutch texts tend to be
longer.
It's hard to make a 'beautiful' design; what's more, the rules differ on
all
platforms. Not to mention that it is very much a matter of taste.
All you can hope for is that the design is consistent:
i.e. the same design rules in all dialogs in a program.
I am trying to create such design rules :)
Speaking about button sizes I want to prevent the situation when every
button has different size.
For example OK button is 30px with and Cancel button is 60px with.
They must have the same width: 75px or 100px - it can be discussed. We need
to find some button width, which is good for every language in most cases.
And use this width as default.
Yes, UI is matter of taste. But there will be no nice looking and consistent
UI without some documented UI guidelines.
Yury Sidorov.
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