well, that's exactly how Netbeans does it - the name goes bold when you edit the value. (I would say taking inspiration from Netbeans when its come to the interface is always a good idea :) 2009/1/23 Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>:
On 1/23/2009 12:06 PM, Paul Ryan wrote:
I prefer the bolding of values because that is the thing your modifying. Bolding of the name implies something special about that name which is not the case here.
George, I was going to disagree with Paul but, having looked back more carefully at what distinction the bold is intended to indicate, I would come down tentatively on the side of bolding the values. As I understand your question, the distinction you're drawing with regard to attributes is not intrinsic to those attributes, but is totally dependent on whether the user has entered a value in that instance. Am I right? In that case I think the distinction is a distinction of value, not of the attributes themselves, so it would make more sense to bold the value. (Or both.)
My 2 cents...
Thanks for asking.
Lars