Re: Dialog Preferences (was whatever)

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> What I much prefer is having an xp class that provides a simple way for
> platform implementations to retrieve information, so that simon says
> "hey, you - update!" and the platform implementation asks:
>
> what is A? 3
> what is B? 5.62
> what is C? 9in
> what is D? "English (U.S.)"
> what is E? red
> what is F? dotted
> what is G? true
> &c.
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> This is, to my mind, a much more transparent way of doing it, and no
> need for an intermediate class, and you can handle exotic types as
> necessary.
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> What's more, you can implement new stuff in xp and your platform of
> choice without worrying about other platforms; they will catch up in
> their own good time.
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> And it's not so different from the way we do things already.
>

Hi Frank,
         Thanks for articulating things so clearly. I much prefer this.

I also have a bit of frustration that all this coding work does not
improve the user experience.

I can see that it does help in the creation of new dialogs but do we
really need to rewrite lots of working code?

The preferences dialog excepted where the amount of work required to add
just one extra check box is simply insane.

Martin
Received on Fri Feb 25 21:54:48 2005