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[headhawg]

"So what did you do on Christmas Day, HH?"
"I wrote some code and worked on UI designs."
"Oh...that's a little sad, isn't it?"
"Yup."

I hope all of you had a nice holiday weekend. Attached is an alternative main screen for HHX. Picture buttons replace the horse-on-fire logo. Hovering over the buttons will reveal a corresponding "tool tip". (The screen capture doesn't show the mouse pointer.) The obvious advantage to this design is the larger window for outputting race/horse info. With the original screen's left-side buttons moved and made smaller, the tabbed output area can be bigger without increasing the entire form size. Doing this will allow for more columns if needed, and/or a larger font size to make things easier to read.

Personally I prefer the original design but we'll see which screen design works better overall. BTW, the big white area is for the race conditions. Summary conditions are nice, but I think it's important for handicappers to read the entire set of conditions. Sometimes races are written for a particular horse or horses and it behooves (pardon the pun) the horseplayer to know the information.