Oh, please don't change the button Eric.
That would just cause confusion with the
installed base. I was just saying that
as a fresh user, I thought the radio wasn't
working. A note in the manual might save
a new owner confusion. It works fine once
you understand that it's an un-button.
Leave that design for a "skin". The GUI
serves well. We've got more important
things to do.
If I were making a skin for it, I would
split the button from the indication, as it's
a two-state button and a tri-state indicator.
I would probably make a separate "transmit"
indicator that wouldn't just depend on color
to show the difference between transmit and
receive.
Mike AA8K
Eric wrote:
Mike,
Great comments. I have made the corrections you mentioned.
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Perhaps we could include a sentence telling the user to
click on the standby button to turn the receiver on?
The first time I went through the set up, I was very
disappointed that I could not receive any signals.
I kept checking my connections and settings with no success.
I finally gave up and went to click on "standby" to
shut it down and the receiver came to life.
This button is not intuitive for me.
If I click on the 160 band button, it takes me to 160 meters.
If I click on the LSB mode button, it puts me into Lower Side Band.
But if I click on the button labeled standby,
it takes it out of standby.
(It really is a standby/on button combined with a
standby/receive/transmit indicator.)
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We changed this from reading "Power" to "Stand By" and "On" due to the
legalities involved. Since we don't really cut the 13.8V to the radio,
power wasn't really a good term to describe the button. I'm open to
discussion on how to redo the button.
This is a timeless GUI issue: Do you want the button to read the
_current_ mode or do you want it to read the _future_ mode (the mode
that will happen when you push the button).
You are clearly a future style (not sure that I am on either side at
this point). I'd like to hear from others who have opinions on this.
Eric Wachsmann
FlexRadio Systems
