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Liveinjapan Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Button



Can I say "a black-letter button" for those buttons enabled, and "a grayed button" for a disabled one?
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I had to puzzle over it. " Actually, since we're talking about the same button and the same letters, it would be more natural if you could find a way to address the colors of the letters directly. Perhaps more dynamic - When a button is disabled, its letters will be grey, but they will become black when the button is enabled.

— Avangi

  • I had to puzzle over it.
  • " Actually, since we're talking about the same button and the same letters, it would be more natural if you could find a way to address the colors of the letters directly.
  • Perhaps more dynamic - When a button is disabled, its letters will be grey, but they will become black when the button is enabled.
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I had to puzzle over it. My choice would be "a button with black letters," and "a button with grey letters."

Actually, since we're talking about the same button and the same letters, it would be more natural if you could find a way to address the colors of the letters directly.

Perhaps more dynamic - When a button is disabled, its letters will be grey, but they will become
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Hmm. The software writers must have words for those, but I don't know them. Yours seem good. I think I would say that the enabled buttons were 'bold black' and the disabled one was 'grayed out'. But that is just my own personal attempt. I tried to locate an on-line 'screen glossary' or 'menu glossary', but I had no luck.

Why don't you ask me the name of those little plastic binders
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What is the name of those little plastic binders on the ends of shoelaces?

CJ
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LiveinjapanCan I say "a black-letter button" for those buttons enabled, and "a grayed button" for a disabled one?
I would just say that grayed-out buttons are disabled and leave it unsaid that the ones that are not grayed-out are enabled.

CJ
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What is the name of those little plastic binders on the ends of shoelaces?
Oh. that's easy! 'Aglets'!
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I must be dense. I've been writing programs since Commodore 64, but I guess I never learned to talk the talk.
When I read LiJ's "greyed button," it didn't immediately occur to me that this was the same button as the "black-letter-button." Granted, it didn't take long.
But if this write-up is supposed to reach the uninitiated (assuming there are any left) "a greyed button" is not exactly
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Mister MicawberOh. that's easy! 'Aglets'!
Oh, geez! And here I've been all these years thinking aglets were baby agles.

CJ
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I'd just say enabled/disabled buttons (as used in software development). If you need to explain what an enabled/disabled button looks like then you can use descriptions such as "greyed-out buttons" and similar.
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IvanhrI'd just say enabled/disabled buttons (as used in software development). If you need to explain what an enabled/disabled button looks like then you can use descriptions such as "greyed-out buttons" and similar.
I think of them more as being tools of the end user than of the developer.
As you say, "If you need to explain [things], etc."
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