You've pretty much confirmed what I've been saying. Users CAN ask for things that just don't make sense. We can CONSULT with them, but it may not sway their mind.

As for illegal: What if your customer requests that you write the code in a way that obviously is allowing the customer to embezzle money from the company. That would be illegal in the US and Germany. Would you do it?

>High Craig,
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>That's an example of an UI that looks like 99% as the guidlines say. O.k Bob might not follow those, but it's not active. Only some colors are - for whatever reason - a bit - ouch. I think the user has a strange problem with his color sight. I would get a headache soon. But that's a matter of taste. IOW this is implemented by MS (as far as MS uses it's own guidelines, there are known examples) and the (now gone) color settings are a on users dream. I feel better with that (User choosen but strange to me) then the now prefabricated ugly color schems MS forces me to. I had a clearly visible captions and highlights that suits me (I'm a bit color blind on red) and now all I have to use all the strange lilac or more ugly pastel color.
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>It all depends on money. I'm normaly paid to have a fast reliable answer so I would try the simpler one. OTOH I can not stop the customer from giving me more money if he insists. You understand, there will be extra charge for work done unwillingly and reputation tarnished.
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>MS should spend lesser money on UI research and more on documentation. VFP help must be the last usable. Not my words. This is from inside MS. MS simply has fired there tech doc people. (If you complain I try to understand Powershell for years. There is no usable doc out there. This also proved from inside MS. In general I choose to move the stuff to linux and use the bash. Much much better info available. Any help is greatly appreciated.)
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>Legal problems? This is distracting from the problem. Are you shure the use of your code is allways legal or moralic?
>Things legal in germany are illegal in the U.S. and vice versa. I can hack VFP to fix the bugs MS is unwilling to fix or I can pay our chinee friend to do so. You can't.
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>And back to our OK button. You understand the concept of advocatus diaboli?
>All my statement was that the button should be DEFAULT and anything else only on rare places with a good reason. But clearly not just DEFAULT as the only true way.