Re: [Gnumed-devel] A Little Fix (Preg. Calc.)

[Horst Herb]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:00, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> I personally find the warning popup "LNMP is in the future"
> distracting. *I*'d prefer it to be less intrusive such as in a
> status bar at the bottom of the window. We might want to ask
> domain experts (obs+gyne, juvenile care specialists, etc.) on
> advice.

I sometimes get women asking "if I conceive on such and such date, when will 
the baby be born?". Thus, I do have situations where I use the pregnancy 
calculator with the LNMP set in the future.

Regarding popups our golden rule remains valid: popups are only allowed under 
extreme circumstances
- warning about situations with truly disastrous consequences
- irreparable system errors
- where the program flow is actually simplified for ythe end user that way 
(very, very rarely the case)

Notifications as in the case above should be done via
- status text
- background colouring of the input field
- optional acoustic signal

Horst