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Thread EDBManager - colours
Wed, Aug 5 2009 3:34 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Tim

No idea how difficult this would be but to help me preserve my data I'd like to suggest something like I do with my apps. I commit the sin of having live and development on the same PC, and even when the live data is on a different pc use my development notebook as my main machine/terminal.

Most of my stuff has the option for users to set colours (very comprehensive with the new stuff and TMS controls) so the live and development copies have very different colour schemes.

I know EDBManager shows the session and database down at the bottom and I'm using different sessions for live and development but its not massively obvious which set of data I'm in.

Would it be possible to have a colour scheme for each session? Nothing massively sophisticated just enough so that its obvious you're in the red session or the blue session.

Roy Lambert
Thu, Aug 6 2009 10:50 AMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

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Roy,

<< Would it be possible to have a colour scheme for each session? Nothing
massively sophisticated just enough so that its obvious you're in the red
session or the blue session. >>

I'm not sure if this is possible (or desirable Smiley.  What exactly would be
painted with the "session" color scheme, as opposed to the normal color
scheme ?

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
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Thu, Aug 6 2009 11:27 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Tim

>I'm not sure if this is possible (or desirable Smiley.

Not to mention esthetically pleasing Smiley

>What exactly would be
>painted with the "session" color scheme, as opposed to the normal color
>scheme ?

There are a number of candidates - the status bar, the tool bar, the tree etc

My concern is that it is to easy to get confused as to which session you're in, press F9 in a script or query and bye, bye database

Roy Lambert
Thu, Aug 6 2009 2:37 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Roy,

<< There are a number of candidates - the status bar, the tool bar, the tree
etc

My concern is that it is to easy to get confused as to which session you're
in, press F9 in a script or query and bye, bye database >>

Well, we do already indicate what session is active in the status bar.  I
can see about adding another label at the top, or in the caption of the main
form, but I think the whole color scheme is a lot of work for very little
payoff, especially if you can't remember which color schemes are assigned to
which sessions. Smiley

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Fri, Aug 7 2009 2:37 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Tim

>Well, we do already indicate what session is active in the status bar.

I know, but its not blindingly obvious

>I
>can see about adding another label at the top, or in the caption of the main
>form,

Or even just the status bar

>but I think the whole color scheme is a lot of work for very little
>payoff,

For you its probably zero payoff, for someone who happens to notice they're about to delete live data its worthwhile

>especially if you can't remember which color schemes are assigned to
>which sessions. Smiley

That's easy - development is always bright, garish and "in yer face" whereas live is cool and soothing, or at least something you can stand to have in front of your eyes all day.

Roy Lambert
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