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From: | Helge Hess |
Subject: | Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes) |
Date: | Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:53:27 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 |
Thomas Cherryhomes wrote:
RENAISSANCE HAS TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TWO DIFFERENT MENU LAYOUTS! What's the point of a single mark-up when you have to do things twice, anyway? It simply does not take long to do proper nibs for a given UI...
The question is the goal. If you have the time and the ambition to write two different UIs, I certainly agree that it makes sense to write a UI for OSX and to write a UI for GNUstep. But if you don't, R. (too complicated name ;-) - like Mozilla XUL, helps you to build a UI that works on both platforms and still looks 95% as good as a native UI.
And: no - the R. user doesn't have to differentiate between two menu layouts. I guess you are mainly referring to positions of standard menues ? R. is all about abstraction, eg if you want to have a "quit" menu, just say
<quit-menu/> and R. will be able to place it according to the platform style guide.Actually R. layouts will often look better than a lot of "manual" layouts ! Why ? Because R. can *enforce* style guides (eg place a quit menu item always in the same place) !
R. rocks ! ;-) greetings Helge
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