On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Nate Lowrie wrote: > >>> I think he has thoughts about the naming. May as well wait if it >>> might >>> result in changing the name anyway. I was about to give you the nod >>> to >>> commit to trunk, BTW, but let's wait and see what Ed's thoughts on >>> the >>> matter are. >> >> fair enough. I can keep developing from my branch until then. > > OK, finally have time to catch my breath and respond. > > I'm 100% behind adding new controls to make our environment > potentially richer. It was just the name of the control that was > problematic for me. > > 'Advanced' is a subjective term, and my concern is that it implies > 'better'. That's the reason I did not want to perpetuate the wx use of > 'AUI', because it was not an 'advanced' user interface; it was just a > different, non-standard one. Since its primary distinguishing feature > was the dockability of its components, I chose 'dock' as the name base > for these controls in Dabo. > > Can you think of a similar distinguishing feature for this control? > IOW, why would someone ever use this instead of the platform-standard > paged control?
I mainly needed it because of the close buttons and nav buttons available on the header, as well as the stylistic elements. Maybe we could call it dStyledPageFrame? Nate L. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
