Hi,
I found the developer UI guide for the Newton, and it's rather
interesting:
http://www.unna.org/unna/development/documentation/uiguidl.zip
The newton used some kind of object database, and the UI seemed quite
nice -- never tried once, but here is some interesting videos :
http://www.newtenlightment.de/downloads.html#movies
(hmm makes me want to go to ebay ;-)
after seeing the videos and reading the UI guide, I easily believe
thoses who claimed the newton UI was superior to PalmOS ;-)
(and obviously to WinCE, which is just a very lame UI... and I
thought PalmOS could be improved at the time... now that I have a
pocketpc, I wonder why microsoft persist doing such lame UI, without
even having here the excuse of the sacro-saint compatibility...
anyway..)
Among the good ideas we could perhaps reuse are differents windows
borders (for example for information panels..),
the concept of a sending service, where you could send the current
document (as a fax, a mail, etc.) -- we can easily implement that
using the openstep services, but perhaps we should have a top level
menu item for that (I think it would be neat) ?
the other possibly interesting bit is the way the documents are
managed, but it's difficult to see how practical it is with lots of
documents, just by reading the docs..
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
