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Subject:Re: homing in on a target From:"Martin Soderstrom" <scribbler1382 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:33:38 -0400
Less is more. If it's a red circle, call it a red circle. Of course, you
can entrench it in other modifiers and descriptors if that's your style or
your target audience's expectation, but make sure the base of your
description is what they're seeing.
IMHO, of course. :)
"Larry Sherman" <lsherman -at- documentology -dot- com> wrote in message news:116823 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
>
> Hello whirlers,
>
> Here's another terminology question. I'm documenting a GIS-type interface.
One of the
> functions allows the user to find a particular point (a feature such as an
airport, a
> radar installation, etc.) on a map by specifying the point's identifier,
then clicking a
> Locate button. The Locate function pans the map view so that the specified
point is
> centred in the map window, then a red circle is displayed which diminishes
in size over a
> period of about a second as it homes in on the point. My current draft
description of the
> Locate function is:
>
> "The Locate function centres the selected feature in the map window and
then draws your
> attention to that point by momentarily displaying a shrinking red circle
centred on the
> point."
>
> My question is: Can anyone suggest a name for the diminishing red circle?
The developer
> of the function doesn't have a name for it, and terms such as "highlight",
"target"
> and "bullseye" don't seem to quite fit.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Larry Sherman
>
>
>
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