CompuServe Messages

Hi, John– The colors of minerals vary so erratically (some come in all colors of the rainbow, relatively few have only one distinctive color), and the descriptions Lanny must be finding in the literature have so many different notions of how to describe them, that I suspect it is best to just give the user dozen or so color buttons ("red", "yellow", etc.) so the user will not waste too much time fine-tuning RGB slides which would get something more precise than the data supports. Of course, the user may just spend a lot of time agonizing over the choice between buttons anyway… I hope the database application would be able to override any custom color palettes to be sure to show the colors intended. I wonder how dependent color display is on monitor choice? Folks, in choosing between a raw database and one coupled with a manager program, remember a manager can make some things easy, like finishing a word or offering a pick list as soon as you type a few letters. –Doug