At 3:59 PM -0500 4/6/01, Brian Brackeen wrote:
>Is an Exit button, not a good thing? Coming from a Windows background I put
>exit buttons on everything, and was looking for a way to put them on my palm
>apps as well. Unless it is unneeded, can you elaborate?
At 3:37 PM -0700 4/6/01, Scott Johnson (Bellevue) wrote:
> > From: Ben Combee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> The "home" button as well as the hard buttons
>
>Think of it like this: your app has up to 6 exit buttons already: 4 round
>plastic ones and 2 glass ones. And the Palm VII, counting the antenna,
>actually has VII exit thingies.
Actually, Brian may be faulting on one of the other reasons why we
tend to get snippy: he didn't fully describe his problem. Perhaps
he's thinking of adding "Exit" buttons to sub-forms. These would
work similarly to the way the "Done" buttons works in Palm's
applications. In that context, they should be OK.
On the other hand, perhaps Brian is suffering from Windowsitis, and
is indeed trying to apply the wrong metaphor to Palm design. For
instance, Windows programmers tend to think that *every* application
needs a toolbar or that adding a so-called Wizard is the solution to
an overly-complicated application, when neither of those is actually
the case. His attempt to use Exit buttons on everything may be
another symptom of the same problem, in which case Ben and Scott's
advice should be heeded.
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