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Lawrence · 12-04-2010, 10:36 AM

Adding on using the graphic from above... The I/O graphic seems to be a bit of a waste of space maybe where all it may need is a M, S and an R to illustrate Master, Send & Receive states.

The IO graphic seems to be at least 2-3 times larger / wider than it maybe needs to be. I'm also not sure that - on the TCP - the actual words Trim, Read, Latch etc necessarily need to be literally spelled out. There is a lettering conflict with Trim and Touch so you can't just use "T" but maybe T for trim & "Tc" for touch. But that one also seems to unnecessarily take up more horizontal space for things where the choices - or representation of current state - is limited enough to be given with a single letter in most cases.

So maybe design wise some of those things may be using more space than they necessarily need which results (it seems) in having to use a necessarily taller vertical size for a certain amount of control display.

Thanks.

12-04-2010, 10:36 AM	#65
Lawrence Human being with feelings Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 21,551	Adding on using the graphic from above... The I/O graphic seems to be a bit of a waste of space maybe where all it may need is a M, S and an R to illustrate Master, Send & Receive states. The IO graphic seems to be at least 2-3 times larger / wider than it maybe needs to be. I'm also not sure that - on the TCP - the actual words Trim, Read, Latch etc necessarily need to be literally spelled out. There is a lettering conflict with Trim and Touch so you can't just use "T" but maybe T for trim & "Tc" for touch. But that one also seems to unnecessarily take up more horizontal space for things where the choices - or representation of current state - is limited enough to be given with a single letter in most cases. So maybe design wise some of those things may be using more space than they necessarily need which results (it seems) in having to use a necessarily taller vertical size for a certain amount of control display. Thanks.