Thanks to everyone who responded to my question. I think in my situation going modeless might be the way to go.
My goal is to make an application GUI that my clients can't tell if I built it with RunRev or Interface Builder. I would hope that this would be the RunRev team's as well. Thanks again for the comments. -- Dave Egbert On 11/28/03 6:18 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Spencer wrote: > >> "Bad form" is displaying an inconsistent or confusing interface to the >> user. The pinstripes help set apart editable areas from areas having do >> do with the operations of the application. This window I'm using now to >> write mail, for example, has pinstripes under the icons for "Send" and >> "Attach" and such. The section of the window I'm typing in of course >> does not. I don't think the original intent of the HIG would be to have >> all of these areas white, just because this happens to be a >> document-style window. That would be more visually confusing and ugly. > > Of course, But if you were working in a drawing app the pinstripes would be > inappropriate in the content region. With something as flexible as Rev, why > should the presume to be able to determine what your content area is? > > If you need a window without other modes such as pointer (like the email > window you mention) just set the style to modeless. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
