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« on: April 26, 2006, 07:42:10 PM »
This is a screen set that I made up about a year ago to test concepts of screen design in MACH3. It used the premise that a "modality" function might be advantageous. Each screen is called from the main screen (sort of the way that the Newfangled Wizard set and the Lathe screen work today), however the keyboard function keys (other than F1 reserved for HELP) should move you from screen to screen.
Yes, I know that some of the graphics are a bit disjointed (a few different software packages used for buttons [some even labled "DEMO"]), but the attempt was to see if I could reduce the required real estate and make the screens intuitive. An attempt was made to have similar functions fall in the same positions on different screens. The black background was to increase contract with the buttons. The coolant configuration was to see if a small, but recognizable method made sense.
There is a lot going on in the "off the screen" area, so these are best viewed at 1152x864 (or to take them appart in Screen Designer).
Hopefully some of the design concepts will be useful to this new crop of screen designers (I felt very lonely back then). I would also welcome constructive criticism (other than to point out the obvious fact that some of the graphics are a bit weird and out of place).
As I pointed out in past posts, there was no requirement to copy the way things had been done in the past. and I figured I'd break with tradition with some of the concepts. I'm curious what you guys think.
Regards,
Jeff