I guess it's not that different logically, except of course the launcher
traditionally occupies the entire screen on the device making it appear
to the user that the original application has been exited (it is very
rare indeed you don't have enough apps loaded to only show a partial
launcher if you see what I mean).
Other dialogs (find, keyboard etc.) mostly apply to the current
application you have running (ie. you're looking for something (ack find
is a bad example ;)) or entering input into the app) and usually don't
occupy the entire display. The launcher is kind of a different beast (it
lets you swap to another app). I guess in my mind the way the launcher
behaves in terms of events on the device and the way the launcher
behaves in terms of actual user interface don't quite match.
It's probably a hang over from the 'desktop' model we're all used to
(where if you exit all your apps on your PC/Mac you're left with the
desktop which is conceptually similar to the launcher in PalmOS (it
shows icons to launch apps). The assumption is of course that if you can
'see' the desktop (or launcher) then you haven't got anything else
running (well that's kind of a poor example too).
Anyway this is starting to sound suspiciously like a rather hand wavy
defense against your valid point ;).
Regardless I MUCH prefer the way the launcher behaves now - as a
seperate application in it's own right. It just seems cleaner (IMHO ;)).
Palm are not thinking of returning to the old model are they?!
Stuart Nicholson
Programmer
Firepad Inc.
PS: It also made it harder if you were doing nasty things with the
display hardware ;).
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply To: Palm Developer Forum
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 2:53 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: appStopEvent and PalmOS 2.0
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>
>
> Stuart,
>
> I'd like to further understand your perspective. How is bringing up
> the
> Launcher dialog any different from any of the other dialogs that could
> come up?
> How is it different from the keyboard dialog or the find dialog?
>
> Or are you saying that those dialogs should also send appPausedEvent
> or
> appBackgroundedEvent?
>
> -- Keith
>
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