Will anything ever work?

Welcome to the next thrilling instalment of I still can’t get anything to work and probably never will. The lack of progress with this project is incredibly depressing and at the moment I feel pretty low.

Let’s see if I can find anything that actually has happened to tell you about? As a result of user testing James Field advised me to remove the quit button in my application and replace it with a select button, I have done this it involved changing every text label and the action script that controls the soft keys on every individual movie clip within the application, this was very tedious and to make things worse I tested it and it actual does not work now, so I ask myself could it get any worse?

Yes it does, in my search for an answer to the problem I found the website:

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Softkey_labels

On this site I found out that the best practice advised by Nokia when it comes to the placement of the softkeys, in S60 devices is as follows:

The softkey labels placed on the

• left softkey: Should have positive actions like OK, Select, Options
• right softkey: Should have a negative actions like Back, Cancel, Quit, Exit
• center softkey: Should be select/Done, even though it can be considered as a positive action.

The current positioning of the softkeys in my application does not currently follow this best practice so the tedious changes I made will all have to be redone but hopefully this time with some code that works.

On a positive note I now know something that I never knew before, so you could argue that something good has arisen from all the bad.