On 29/07/2009, at 8:51 AM, David Blanton wrote:
My application deals with embroidery.
To be Mac I want to use the tool bar with the fonts and colors tools.
Because fonts and colors mean something different in this
environment is it de rigueur to override these with my specific
panels?
I don't want the UI Fuzz after me!
For colours, it's possible to add a custom picker (see NSColorPicker)
to the standard colour panel. I would expect that would be a better
approach than replacing the color panel altogether, and then you get
the best of both worlds - the standard interface but tailored to your
app. The user may be comfortable with the standard picker, and
besides, I can't see how "colour" can really have a different meaning
in your app than all the others. Colour is colour.
For fonts, harder to say. Bear in mind though that your app has to co-
exist with others and the user will have already learned to use the
standard panels with other apps. You could be making your app harder
to use/learn by not using the standard panels.
There is no UI Fuzz, only success or failure in the marketplace.
--Graham
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