"Charles Rezsonya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >But why "quit" at all? All it really does (considering the
> >user's ability to start another app at any time) is waste
> >valuable screen space on a button you don't need.
>
>
> to make an app somewhat simpler for usage, after exiting anything the user
> is doing in an application, it would be very user friendly to see a done
> button instead of having to know they must launch another app (even if it is
> the applications program). in my situation it isn't a waste of screen space
> because the only screen they exit from is a screen that gives them a choice
> to log on (using the barcode scanner). when they logoff and get placed in
> that screen having a done button to return to the launcher is very user
> friendly. (pardon any reduntent repetiutious speak, just go in the morning
> and not finished my coffee).
The most user-friendly thing your app can do is to act like the
majority of other apps on the computer. In the Palm realm, that means
staying alive until the user taps the Applications button.
In your case, how about after they logoff your app switches back to the
screen that lets them login? That's what happens on nearly every
computer I've ever used (various Windoze and several flavors of *nix).
The writer to whom you replied wrote this:
> >Actually, I think the normal occurrance of actually terminating
> >your app is to return to the launcher, not what you were doing
> >before ... somebody may correct me on this.
This is by far and away the predominate behavior amongst Palm
applications, and is thus the most user-friendly.
--
Roger Chaplin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
