Laptop diary tool in REV - Glyphs

Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
Mon Jun 19 12:29:18 EDT 2006


No doubt about it, there are good icons, and there are bad icons. Your wine 
icons sound like really good ones. The smaller the size and the lower the 
bit depth, the more skill is involved in representing a concept... and 
perhaps the fewer concepts that can be represented in that space.

16x16 black and white, for example, can do a decent job with things like 
hand/pointer/text/lasso cursors, ascending and descending sorts, left, 
right, home, confirm, cancel, document, application, wine type, etc. But 
advanced concepts like "having a picnic in the forest" probably not.

Of course, context matters a lot too.

Rob Cozens wrote...
> In my HyperCard wine production system--which may yet see life as a Rev 
> app some day--I have three variations of the icon for wine code that show 
> the same bunch of grapes as red, white, and rose.  Whenever a wine code is 
> displayed the label is set to the indicate the color of that wine. 






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