Although I am not part of the gnumed project, as a clinician I can
confirm that in general clinicians want to see as much information
at one time as possible, without scrolling and without navigating
through screens or tabs. Once you know where to look for certain
kinds of information, the eye is quicker than than the mouse. 
Furthermore, layout is critical IMHO.
Having said that, I am afraid I too have no answers for Richard's
specific questions about borders or fonts.
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--- richard terry <rterry@gnumed.net> wrote:
Thanks for your reply as always cliff. I've made some comments
below your text.On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:57 pm, Cliff Wells wrote:
> I don't have an answer to your question, and this may have come
> up when you last asked, but I can't help but think that an
> application with that much stuff on the screen at once would
> tend to be a rather complicated and confusing application.
> Isn't there some way to organize the controls (i.e. tabs,
> dialogs, etc) so that there isn't a mess of controls onscreen
> at the same time?Quite to the contrary. If you are interested peruse this URL
which contains visual basic screen dumps (actually working
program - I've used it in my practice since 1995). The program
has been much loved by all who have been lucky enough to use itsee: www.gnumed.net/rterry/Index.htm
> If you must have a large number of controls on a single panel,
> would it be possible to use something like a scrolled window
> so that only a portion of the controls are visible at once?
>
> Just some ideas.
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Donnal Walter
Arkansas Children's Hospital