>Alain: This is an inefficient approach, I am told.
>FreeCard will be using XBF for file-format stuff.
Alain,
Eric was talking about the tabbed windows MC has. He saw each tab as a
"folder". All of the stack is of course in a single file in MC, too.
>Alain: Clues as to what we need to change to make the
>GUI easier may be gleaned from the difficulties that
>are slowing you down when you use MC instead of HC.
>(...)
>Alain: Beginners are the best testers because they
>have to infer what to do and how to do it by reacting
>to what the GUI provides, instead of counting on
>experience to fill the gaps.
This is exactly what I wanted to say. The reason why working in MC is so
slow at first is because you have to re-learn everything about how your UI
ought to behave, and remember things the computer should remember for you.
E.g. in previous MC versions it wasn't uncommon that MC would silently
close a stack and forget your changes. It took some pestering from Mac
users until they added a "Do you really want to quit" dialog, which still
missed the point. I haven't checked whether this is still the case.
>Alain: You could say we have 3 sub-projects. There is
>the FreeCard application, the FreeCard GUI, and the
>FreeScript scripting language. MetaCard is a temporary
>stand-in for the first because MetaCard wants the 2nd.
>(...)
>Alain: MetaCard is a temporary stand-in. Do not focus
>merely on that.
I agree. Forget MC as a product. We're developing the UI mainly for
FreeCard, not for MC. We're just using MC because it'll be more effective
to convert it to FreeCard later.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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