* Alan Gutierrez <alan-boost@engrm.com> [2004-12-26 01:36]:
* Martin Slater <mslater@hellinc.net> [2004-12-26 00:38]:
my 2c
martin
michael toksvig wrote:
"Alan Gutierrez" <alan-boost@engrm.com> wrote in message news:20041224075257.GB9515@maribor.izzy.net...
* I don't think it matters much, to the user, if the button they click is a Motif button or an Aqua button, so long as their form is processed.
I officially regret saying this. It was not the point.
this is simply not true for the mac. if you don't use native controls on a mac you might as well not support the mac at all
mac users have come to expect a very consistent ui experience (spoiled rotten as they are). if it does not look right, they won't look twice at your product
Seconded, I dislike immensely UI's that do not have a native look. In the end they just look unprofessional to me. The're fine for hacking quick tools together but if the product is intented to be released to the wider public they must look and feel like the native OS apps.
As noted elsewhere, providing native look and feel in a UI manager is not the challenge on Macintosh, where the controls are designed to particpate in any aspect of UI.
I want look and feel. Aqua look and feel for Mac. Skinnable look and feel for media gizmos. Pen oriented look and feel for handhelds.
I'm only trying to raise a red flag and say that a simple wrapper around the UI widgets is not enough. That look and feel is a pretty big issue, especially with the Win32 GDI, native controls do not participate in overlayed layout managment.
That last part was suppposed to read: That look and feel is a pretty big issue, especially when, with the Win32 GDI, native controls do not participate in overlayed layout managment. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com