Re: [Gnumed-devel] state of test results handling

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> >     test names in plain text, instead of  bold
> Done. However, test names will then not be visually
> different from test results (aparat from results now being
> monospace) so I set the column 0 background colour to be the
> same as the row/column label background colour thus making
> column 0 appear to be a label. Make sense ?
> 
> >     right-justify the results, within the cells
> They are, aren't they ?
> 
> >     for non-numeric results, present the first 4 characters?
> Ah, excellent point. Make that 8, perhaps ? If more than 8
> display 5 + ... (to indicate there's more) else display up
> to 8.
> 
> >     pad the right end of each result with 3 "space" characters
> >     3rd space is populated with first character of abnormality_indicator
> >             (dunno if this will get confused by varied indicators, like * 
> > or H or h 
> > or upward-pointing arrow)
> Current logic:
> 
> - pad result with 6 spaces
>   - I have observed "+++" as an indicator
>   - collapsing +++ and ++ and + to 1 char falsifies data (acceptably ?)
> - fill those spaces with " (3-chars-of-indicator)" or 6 spaces if no indicator
> 
> - this will align result values given ...
> 
> >     maybe needs to be monospace font to maintain vertical visual alignment
> 
> ... this is (now) done, too.

Monospace apparently is non-trivial but the attached should
be an improvement.

Karsten
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