Stephen Early wrote: > There is no technical problem with creating a library with all the > commonly needed user interface elements in it. The problem is a political > one: persuading everybody to use it. Micro$oft managed it by introducing > a system that wasn't compatible with anything that already existed, and > constrained people to use the user interface elements that they had > created. Over the next few years, people gradually worked out ways of > putting their own user interface back into Windows (snazzy buttons, extra > types of list box, shadow/relief boxes, 'embossed' windows, etc.) > Apple's approach was similar, and I understand that in order to write for the Mac you have to conform to their interface standards. But, I would not consider that a role model to emulate.
> Looks like people inventing their own user interfaces is a fact of life. > I don't like it, but I don't think there's much we can do about it other > than completely closing the development process, which won't work. I don't really see the problem. Chaq'on a son gout. -- David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html Lehigh University 14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759 Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
