I'm using ARP on a large project, I extended it to meet our needs and posted the extension to the ARP wiki page on osflash. You can contact me off list if you had any specific questions.
Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: The Irrelevant Elephant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Open Source Flash Mailing List [email protected] Sent: 10/30/05 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [osflash] starting large offline flash project > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > MY ACTUAL QUESTIONS: > > Do you think ARP is the right framework for me on this project? (If I > > really > > use ARP, I'm going to need some guidance) > > Could you provide me any pointers so that I avoid the brick wall halfway > > through > > the project? > > Hi David, > > I'm no guru, but I can offer a little advice. ARP is probably a good > base to start with, since it provides your basic structure - however you > will probably need to extend it (as most people do) to cover your > requirements. In doing so, I would be tempted to research common Java > patterns for inspiration, and see what suits. > > One thing though .. I would consider your user interface design very > carefully. Upon reading your specification, I was a little concerned to > read 'keyboard controlled, no mouse' and 'lots of sub-sub-sub menus' in > the same sentence. You will need to be very careful here not to > introduce a ton of usability issues, as menu's aren't *really* keyboard > friendly. Of course they often support keyboard control, but it's not a > comfortable way for a user to navigate an application solely with a > keyboard, and menu shortcuts generally aren't that intuitive. I'll take > this Thunderbird window as an example .. under the Edit menu > (shortcut=E) we have a few paste options. Paste itself uses P as a > shortcut, which is great - but 'paste without formatting' uses O as a > shortcut. The only way to know this is to remember it, and I can almost > guarantee that most people wouldn't and they would resort to navigating > the menu by sight alone. > > Anyway I'll stop ranting.. hopefully someone with a bit more authority > on the subject will pipe up :) > > - IE > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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