This is great. I love causing explosions on the forum. It is nice to see
people get revved up about stuff. To answer your question, Matt, the
Graffiti strokes are the same as onscreen or menu functions already existing
in the app. It's one of those things: users want to enter via Graffiti.
Why, I don't know. Tapping onscreen buttons is much easier and faster.
As for exceptions, I have been told that the exception rules are being
cracked down on, and what qualified as an exception for my 1.0 version won't
necessarily work for my 2.0 version. Furthermore, the excuse "the built in
app xxxx doesn't do it" is no longer a good enough reason to get an
exception. So using the calc app as an example won't work (it didn't work
in version 1.0 either for that matter).
Since we are using the calc example, lets continue that. In the calc, you
can enter a period for a decimal point or you can enter 'c' or 'C' to clear.
I need to show the dot indicator for the decimal point, but there is no
reason to show the capital letter indicator, since both 'c' and 'C' do the
same thing. I hope that clarifies. At this point, I think having a capital
letter indicator showing is worthless and therefore shouldn't show. As
Steve said, it is a user interface thing. I see it the same way as having a
menu item that doesn't do anything.
Elia
-----Original Message-----
From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 4:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Graffiti/Indicator question
... and to step back from any potential confusion that may occur, I don't
know the details of Elia's application and so don't know whether this is a
reasonable time for an exception. I just wanted to clarify that we
(usually) have common sense, and so are happy to grant exceptions where
appropriate.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
