On Aug 23, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Nate Lowrie wrote:
> I already gave you the 2 compelling reasons that developers would pick
> this over the native page frame.
My bad then. I didn't think of either of them as 'compelling'; they
just seemed like cool extra goodies.
> The first is the customization of the tab display area through
> different properties.
That's what you mean by 'styled'?
> The second, and IMHO more important reason is that it offer better
> nav functionality
> in the form for the dropdown tab list as well as the nav buttons and
> also offers a close button on the right of the header and on every
> tab.
So it's like a mix of dPageFrame and dPageSelect? With the addition
of the close buttons?
> The 2 names I got out of those two feature sets (dStyledPageFrame
> and dAdavncedPageFrame) were disliked for not being specific enough.
Do you at least understand my objection? Let's say someone came out
with a variation of a paged control that worked differently than both
the base wx.Notebook and the Flat Notebook. Why would the flat version
be considered 'advanced' or 'styled'? Wouldn't the new variation also
be able to be described by those two names?
The three current variations clearly indicate why they are different:
they use a list control, a dropdown selector, or no tabs/programmatic
only methods of changing the selected page. They are also all not the
native paged controls, so naming based on 'nativeness' doesn't make
any sense at all.
In case you haven't guessed, I've deliberately avoided playing around
with the flat notebook class so as not to get a pre-conceived notion.
I wanted you to sell me on why I would want to ever use this over the
multitude of paged controls we currently offer. Then the name would be
obvious.
-- Ed Leafe
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