Here are some differences I noticed in the GUI widgets. No big drastic changes, but interesting to those of us building data-entry/database oriented software. Perhaps some of these are in Lion, but not that I’ve noticed.
- On the read-only panels (without data-entry) they have:
- Greyed-out field labels
- No colons on the labels (Apple has never been consistent on label colons)
- Grey trim around the data-entry panel, making it look like an index card floating above a surface
- Extra large & bolded fonts for grouping label
- Centered tabs
- "Edit…” buttons, presumably to present further data-entry dialogs or assistance
- Slightly different presentation of +/-/✎ buttons
- “Cancel” & “Done” buttons
- Not “OK”
- Set inside a grey panel
- White background in main data-entry area, but grey background in header and footer areas.
- Yet sheets are the opposite, white b/g for title but grey for data-entry.
- The grey footer seems inconsistently used.
- Or perhaps the grey footer is present only for panels that have undoable actions and after the user does some data-entry then the Cancel/Done buttons appear in that grey footer.
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