You can't be cavalier about the UI. The Windows version of the application could be in an enterprise setting where lots of users are already accustom to how it works today. Good or bad, consistency outweighs uniqueness. Changing something on an enterprise scale needs to go through a methodical process to get all the people in sync or it could cost you money/downtime.
-Tony On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Tony P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for all the responses folks. >> >> On 15 Jun 2010, at 7:22 pm, Corbin Dunn wrote: >> >>> Do the height calculations in the bounds change, and then call the >>> "noteHeight.." method all in the same run loop stack; that will probably >>> fix your problem. >> >> Beautiful, works like a dream. Many, many thanks for that, you're a >> superstar! >> >>> Even though it is fast, however, a table with 200,000 rows is excessive. >>> There is no way a user can realistically use all those rows without some >>> sort of filtering/searching. I would consider re-doing your UI to have a >>> "more results" button, akin to the Finder spotlight search results. >> >> It does have a search, and I would agree, but arbitrary browsing is required >> (even from the search which just scrolls to the results). Unfortunately it's >> a PC->Mac port and you'll have to drag me through hot coals before I'll be >> happy with a Mac version that seems somehow inferior to the PC version. It's >> an iPhone version next though, so I'll definitely have to re-think the UI >> for that. > > “Inferior” does not mean “fewer things on the screen.” Now is your > opportunity to exploit the Mac's less-is-more conventions to better the > experience and produce a superior product. This might in turn inform the > Windows side of the product, and so forth. > > --Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/tonyrom%40hotmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > -Tony _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
