Status Bar (messages)

[ger21]

I was doing something yesterday, and was writing messages in reverse order to make them more readable.

I think that either way will have different issues.

[A_Camera]

It could be a cultural thing I guess.

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[cncdrive]

Originally this was in the usual top to bottom way, but several customers asked to change this and to write the last message to the top row so it is easier to follow it for the eyes.
When customers asked about it we also thought that it might be easier for the eyes to follow the happening if you can focus on the top of the status box.
Also if custom screens are built then it can be sized to any pixels height, so it is possible to size the box with only a part of the very bottom line is seen which could be annoying,
while the top row can be always seen in full no matter how the box is sized.

And for custom listboxes there are 2 functions, one which writes to the top row and one which writes to the last row, so with custom listboxes both ways of writting are possible.

So, it is nothing to do with culture, this was a thing asked mostly by USA customers.

[A_Camera]

Originally this was in the usual top to bottom way, but several customers asked to change this and to write the last message to the top row so it is easier to follow it for the eyes.
When customers asked about it we also thought that it might be easier for the eyes to follow the happening if you can focus on the top of the status box.
Also if custom screens are built then it can be sized to any pixels height, so it is possible to size the box with only a part of the very bottom line is seen which could be annoying,
while the top row can be always seen in full no matter how the box is sized.

And for custom listboxes there are 2 functions, one which writes to the top row and one which writes to the last row, so with custom listboxes both ways of writting are possible.

So, it is nothing to do with culture, this was a thing asked mostly by USA customers.

Of course it is not a cultural thing. As a matter of fact, it is common practice in alert lists to type the last alert on top, so the oldest is on the bottom. The status bar is a sort of alert list, so it is very logical to have the last message on top. After all, it is a list, not a document. Perhaps not logical for everyone...