home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Subject: Re: ST-Guide
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9407210344.AA12462@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 21, 94 01:44:32 pm
- Message-Id: <9407211115.ad23894@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- What you wrote:
- > Is there some standard way of lynching software authors, and does anyone
- > know Pradip's address? (Atari Works uses forms for almost everything,
- > including the printing progress dialog!!! Forget multitasking with AW).
-
- I think you have to go visit them, and slap them real hard with the
- guidelines for writing multitasking-ready GEM applications.
-
- > Using a form for progress is MAJORLY BAD, because it is just that time
- > that the user will want to switch to some other application.
- >
- > In fact, gaudy progress meters are a bad idea in general.
-
- IMHO they provide valuable feed-back to the user, ie, "Is my program
- crashed, or just taking an hour to <foo>?"
-
- It's not really safe to use a spinning cursor or something, especially
- if your program is stupid and doesn't see if it's got focus or not...
-
- > ... and can we vote on the short-cuts now and move on? (to app-defs.sys)
-
- Sounds good; what happened to the ^A vote?
-
- --
- ----------========================_ /\ ============================----------
- Chris Herborth \`o.0' herborth@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM
- Information Products Developer =(___)=
- AT&T Global Information Solutions U
-