Pull down buttons

[Dave]

Hi,

A lot of people have pointed this out in the past. It's partly  
because the way revolution has evolved and partly due to implementing  
a cross-platform GUI that doesn't rely on terms from the underlying  
OS. The keywords for these controls could have been better chosen  
IMO, but they are here to stay by the looks of things.

As long as you know what the control does and how to use it who cares  
that RunRev types is as a "button"?

The dictionary definition of the word "button" is:

• a knob on a piece of electrical or electronic equipment that is  
pressed to operate it.

Interestingly the definition of the word "switch" is:

a device for making and breaking the connection in an electric  
circuit : the guard hit a switch and the gate swung open.
• Computing a program variable that activates or deactivates a  
certain function of a program.

Cheers
Dave

On 20 Jan 2009, at 16:56, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Mark Smith wrote:
>
> "all those items are buttons, no?"
>
> well that is a bit of a moot point as far as I am concerned:
>
> The concept BUTTON is surely a metaphorical mapping of a real button
> onto the GUI; and I have yet to see examples of Pull down buttons in
> the real world. People coming to a computer GUI would, I suspect, be
> a bit confused over the idea of 'Pull down buttons'.
>
> Now 'drop down menus' and 'combo boxes' are features of WIMP GUIs
> that have no obvious real-world equivalent. They do follow
> well-established conventions within the 'world' of computer
> GUIs.
>
> I feel uncomfortable about calling GUI artifacts (controls) that
> present the end-user with a variety of menued choices 'buttons'.
>
> Let the debate rage :)
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
>
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