On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:53:26 -0800, Richard Gaskin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dan Shafer wrote:
It feels like this inconvenience is pretty minor unless the user
actually
moves the mouse to the dock, moves around to find the app s/he
wants to use
and clicks on it.
This raises a question about who the product is targeted for: If
one's
doing multimedia and wants a backdrop, they probably don't want the
Dock
and the menu bar. If they want the Dock and the menu bar, they
probably
don't want the backdrop.
So what is the target market who prefers both a backdrop and the
Dock/menus?
I (or in fact my users - schoolchildren) represent a segment of that
market. What they appear to want is the familiar look of the computer
screen, which they are all of course already happy with, but without
the distractions of other application windows while they are working
on the game-like app which I provide. These kids would be insulted
not to see the dock/toolbar - it would just seem patronising to hide
it. But they do want the current app to fill the available screen
area. Or so my (very experienced) publisher tells me. To accomplish
this using Rev itself I have done a home-grown backdrop that uses the
windowBoundingRect and does some calculations.
FWIW
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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