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RE: Should writers develop their own illustrations?
Subject:RE: Should writers develop their own illustrations? From:"Mike Starr" <writstar -at- wi -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:15:4 -0600
I've tried the UI elements in Visio myself and find that the tools
available in VB are much easier FOR ME to use. I can make those same
modifications much quicker and easier with VB than I can with Visio and
I've got MUCH more experience with Visio than I do with VB.
I don't know what your experience is with VB but I find it to be pretty
much as user-friendly for my purposes as Visio is. The basic task of adding
a GUI element to a drawing is simpler with Visio, but the modifications
don't quite work as easily for me.
Mike
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-----------------------Original Message-----------------------
>From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
>Subject: Re: Should writers develop their own illustrations?
>
>The process of defining the UI with the customer might entail a
>number of modifications. A number of times, the user sat next to me
>as they asked that a box be made bigger or wider, that the font be
>changed, that the row of buttons be changed from horizontal to
>vertical, that a field be added, removed, changed, that a dropdown
>list be modified, that a logo be added to the screen...you name it,
>they asked for it.
>
>I cannot even imagine most of those changes in VB being as easy as
>grabbing a corner and dragging, dragging an element from a palette,
>highlighting text and changing the font size, dragging elements
>around the screen.
>
>Besides...for our department, with what we did and what we knew, this
>simply worked best. I responded to how a message about a technical
>writer being involved in the design. I didn't respond to a message
>about the most efficient way to develop a front end.
>
>So...what you are teling me is that is is faster to design an element
>in VB than drag an element from one end of a screen to another?
>Jeezz...now I REALLY can't understand why so many software
>programmers miss deadlines...drag and drop code from a pallet...who
>woulda thought it.
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