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Subject: Re: Need advice on buttons
From: Arnaud Nicolet <arnaud at tribu dot ch>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:13:22 +0200
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Le 30 août 06 à 16:30 Soir, Steve Goodrich a écrit:

Hi list,

I need some advice about how to accomplish something in REALbasic. In our application, we have a column of buttons that navigate several screens. I.E. each button jumps you quickly to a different window. That window may or may not be visible at any given time and pushing the button makes it visible and gives it focus. There are times that very important information may be waiting on one of those screens. We need a non-intrusive way (no pop-ups) to draw attention to the buttons without being annoying.

In the current version of our product, written with another development tool, we just changed the color of the text of those buttons to red. It was something that drew attention to the button without getting in the way of people working and without being annoying. We need something similar that works on both the Mac and Windows (and ultimately Linux).

We really want to use push buttons because they look super nice on both platforms.

Since changing the color of text on a buttons seems to be considered a sin just below drowning nuns, what are my options?

What about using a push button with no caption ("") and, on top of it, a static text with red colour?
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