nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (11/06/90)
> > Our team is developing an application with a large number of > BulletinBoard dialogs which display attributes of network objects to > the user. We're trying to decide how best to present read-only > information (i.e. serial number, state of the power supply). ... > I could set the stipple pattern so that lack of sensitivity does not > make the widget unreadable and I could fool around with shadow > resources so that the widget is recognizable, but not 3D. I can't > find any useful discussion of this problem in the Style Guide or I guess I would tend towards setting the shadow width to zero, so long as it doesn't distort things too much. My gut feeling when I look at a Motif interface is that if it sticks out I can push it. So I think turning off the shadow would send the right message. Another possibility (which may not be available to you) would be to play with color. I don't know if it would work, but it might be interesting to experiment with active/inactive colors.