Labels and labeled Fields

[Rob Cozens]

>Is there some advantage of buttons as labels over fields?

Dar, et al:

I prefer title buttons to label fields because:

1.  With the correct generic icons, translation is limited to 
toolTips (if used)

2.  Title buttons generally require less window space

3.  Title buttons are generally uniform in size

4.  Titles don't change size in different languages (especially nice 
for column titles)

5.  With appropriate sets of icons (the icon, the hilitedIcon, the 
armedIcon, the disabledIcon, the visitedIcon) and handlers, title 
buttons can respond to mouse events and otherwise interact with the 
user in many more ways than a label field can.

6.  Having reduced the process of recording winemaking activity to a 
series of point & click operations that can be performed entirely via 
the mouse, I'm a button-driven interface foole.
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Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)