Ken Norris wrote: > The "drawer" thing is pretty neat too, but > probably the wrong metaphor for my purposes. I want to do the UI for > convenience, but yet not show them unfamiliar stuff.
The tougher thing about drawers is that they're OS X-specific; there is no corollary in other OSes. But I found some hope in Apple's suggestions for their usage: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGui delines/XHIGWindows/chapter_16_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961/B ACEFIJH> That's such a specific definition that the number of cases where a drawer is truly needed are few. More interesting to me was scrolling down to the section below drawers, on what Apple calls a "source list". That's very much like Win components in many respects, and covers a significant subset of what used to be recommended for drawers in earlier HIG releases. I suppose one could make two UIs, one for Apple and one for everyone else. For myself, I prefer to just split it down the middle and deliver one UI using elements common to all platforms. I'm grateful for platform-specific appearances, but like Macromedia, Adobe, and other companies that maintain an internal HIG for cross-platform apps, I try to avoid haing a user relearn my UI when they switch platforms. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
