PRIMER 22.1

Use of Button Background Colours

Use of Button Background Colours

The keyword editor uses a variation on the standard button colour scheme used elsewhere in PRIMER in order to distinguish between inactive and active / selected.

In all cases the colours are dark text on a light background when either the data field or the whole row are not active, and invert to become light text on a dark background (the standard PRIMER colours) when they become active.

Green is used on the Entry row to denote data fields that are grammatically correct in their current state
Inactive Active data entry
Blue is used on the Data rows to denote data fields that are grammatically correct in their current state
Inactive Active data entry
Red is used on all rows to denote a field that is either invalid, or empty and requires population with data Inactive Active data entry
Inactive Active data entry
Cyan is used on all rows to denote references to latent (referenced but undefined) items
Inactive Active data entry