Tuviah Snyder wrote: >> wouldn't a simple template background pattern do? >> Anything is faster than Aqua, even a Mac128K! > Possibly for Windows, and Unix. However the way a brushed metal window looks > depends on it's size (play around with resizing a metal window). It's like > trying to simulate a gradient with a background pattern.
A little pespective: Apple's HIG sez of "textured windows" - This window style has been designed specifically for use by � and is therefore best suited to � applications that provide an interface for a digital peripheral, such as a camera, or an interface for managing data shared with digital peripherals, such as the Address Book application. This appearance may also be appropriate for applications that strive to re-create a familiar physical device�the Calculator application, for example. Avoid using the textured window appearance in applications or utilities that are unrelated to digital peripherals or to the data associated with these devices. In summary: most apps will never need it. And even if every OS X app were to disregard Apple's recommendation (as apparently Apple themselves are doing with Safari and the Panther Finder), the sum of all affected users would total only about 1% of all computer users (a generous estimate of 50% adoption of OS X among Apple's 2.4% market share). Meanwhile we still don't have native appearances for the OS most widely used, XP. I recognize that there's a certain "wow" factor with metal far disproportionate to its true usage, and in the emotion-driven world of marketing I appreciate making its implementation in OS X a priority. But please, before any effort is expended in migrating an Apple-specific novelty appearance to other OSes, we need native appearances for XP (or even features or bug fixes affecting all platforms). If a novel "look and feel" is desired, what's needed to roll your own has been in the engine since the addition of the windowShape property, which is probably a better bet anyway: just as Mac users get fidgety with apps that are obvious sloppy ports from Windows, making Windows users use Apple appearances may affect perceptions in that audience opposite the developer's intention. What we find "wow" others may think "ugh!". -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
