Re: [boost] GUI

From: John Torjo (john.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-04 06:07:16

> [...]
> As a developer, especially as a Mac developer, I find option 2 wholly 
> unacceptable. That option makes the usability of the system as a whole degrade, 
> because the interface behaviors do not scale beyond a subset of applications I 
> might have installed on my system. 
> 
> It is because of this conclusion (namely, that reimplementing OS-provided 
> behaviors leads to an overall degradation in the usability of the system as a 
> whole) that I find this option unacceptable.
> 

Couldn't agree more!

That's why I invented surfaces 
(http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/surfaces.html) -- so that you can 
customize the UI, while *maintaining* the behaviour of the underlying OS

Best,
John

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John Torjo,    Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal
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