At 12:08 PM 10/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>HOWEVER, you shouldn't have a DONE button for your application.
>That's not how the Palm 'user convention' works. On Palm, the user
>expects to be in one application until (s)he chooses to be in
>another. You app will 'shutdown' as a result of the user's starting a
>NEW application. It shouldn't just 'shutdown' on its own EXCEPT in
>the condition that you have an error initializing the app. In that
>case, it's OK to 'exit' back to whatever was happening.
>
Don't you think it's OK to 'exit' back to whatever was happening before,
even if you didn't get an error?
Maybe it's up to the developer and his/her users. If they want a "DONE"
button, fine - except the developer must realize that it doesn't really
mean 'QUIT', it means "Go back to whatever the user was doing before".
After all, you can launch one app from another app, and having a "quit"
does let you go back to whatever launched the 2nd app.
Don't you get annoyed at having to re-launch things just because you ran a
calculator or something to get an interim value or to check on something?
