Alex Rice wrote: Having not attained thick-wazzuk level; I'm still working on my 3rd degree orange wazzuk belt. :-) All I can say is this is my opinion. -- The first time I opened Rev 1.1.1, I remember staring at the app browser, and the toolbar, and thinking to myself. "what the @#$%^* are all those little toolbar buttons for?" For literally 10 minutes I must have stared at the Rev UI like a deer caught staring in car headlights. Turns out that they were all useful but I applaud the IDE GUI changes in Rev 2. A user should not feel like they are staring into the cockpit of an F-117 stealth jet when they open the IDE for the first time! And I've stumbled my way though plenty of IDEs. Just imagine what a beginner would think when presented with the Rev 1.1.1 IDE?
Were there gratuitous changes? It would imply: 1) There was not merit and consideration for all of the UI changes the Rev team has made. I wouldn't presume that. 2) There is no equivalent, alternate way for you to use a function of the IDE. Can you honestly say App browser changes are "gratuitous" when the Application Browser preferences allow you to assign mouse-key combinations to all objects in the browser (5 * 3 * 9 = 135 possible permutations of mouse-key bindings). No... it's way more than that. It's been a while since I took a combinatorics class. Alex Rice, Software Developer ----------------------- A few points worth considering:- 1. I faced the RR 1.1.1 GUI having not been near Hypercard for 5 years and only ToolBook in between (a fairly graceless GUI). Fiddling around took me a week to have made enough of a start to win a contract - no, I'm not brilliant; just found the GUI extremely accessible. 2. Facing the RR 2 GUI I find that all sorts of things that I have come to rely on in RR 1.1.1 are now tucked away 'under the hood'. This may be a more elegant GUI; however it takes quite a while poking around finding all the bits under the hood; time, that, arguably, could be better spend in R&D. 3. I do not presume anything about the RR team: in fact their speed of development is amazing and impressive. 4. I do, however, find certain aspects of the RR 1.1.1 GUI more to my taste than some in the RR 2 GUI (the properties palette is a big favourite of mine). This is a pity as RR 2 has so many more capabilities than RR 1.1.1. 5. I do not go in for full-frontal flashing; although Alex abviously feels that is what I have done. I generally prefer to keep things under the hood. However, I do think that uncritical adulation of anything can lead to stagnation. ------------------ Wow, glad to get that off my chest. Richmond Mathewson --------------------------------------------------------------- Great Macintosh Products The MacLaunch Store! http://www.maclaunch.com/cgi-launch/store/agora.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
