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John Jonathan Kopanas wrote:
> For my User Interface Design Course at University my group decided to
> write a application for the palm. We are all new to this and have a
> couple of questions that we would appreciate if someone could answer.
Is your class about creating new UIs, or about being consistant with an
esablished one?
> 1) I want to create a black bar as a header for one of my forms and on
> this black bar there will be two icons and a popup-trigger. I want the
> popup trigger to be have white text and a white pulldown arrow so that
> people could see it. Does anyone have a clue no how to do this?
The simplest thing to do would be to create a bitmap that looks the way
you want, then for any of the "active" sections, overlay a button,
trigger, or gadget.
> 2) I created an image of a home that when pushed should take user back
> to the first page of the application. To make the icon a button I
> placed a button under the icon with no text in it and noframe under it.
> Is this the best method?
This is a common approach to perform such a task, though it might look a
little funny on a color device, because it will reverse the colors of
whatever bitmap is there.
> That is my two pressing questions. I would appreciate any insight I can
> get. Thanks.
>
> John Jonathan Kopanas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
http://www.directedge.com
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