Question

I have a WPF grid bound a some object. I have 2 states for each object State1 and State2.
State1 corresponds to the value of one column and depending on the value, I change the row color between red, yellow, or white.

I have another state, State2, corresponding to whether the row is dirty, waiting, or synched to the remote object. I cannot use row color to indicate State2 as it is already being used. What would be the best way to notify user for the state of State2?

I was thinking of adding a column with rectangles and change their colors but State1 color change will interfere with column colors also. Another way i was thinking is to have a color change for the row name. Is this possible. How do people achieve this in their applications?

Answer 1

The simplest thing I think is to just make a column named “state2” or whatever and make it simply show the word that corresponds to the state information.

Then, on top of that, you have the option of adding color cues that change along with the text.

This way you never have to worry about the user not being able to tell the exact value of the information he/she is looking at.