... Matt, everybody, just following up on this: I had the chance to get my app reviewed at WWDC by John Geleynse, and he agreed with doing it as a PrefPane. ...
... Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm joining this list at the suggestion of Uli, made on the Mac SB list. Thanks, Uli, for your always-helpful comments on the Mac SB...
... Why don't you just try it? Grab a copy of Hillegass' book <http:// www.bignerdranch.com/products/cocoa1.shtml> (less than $30 at Amazon) and go nuts. I...
Where can I find UI studies which say not to use red colored text to label items within an application? Where can I find studies which say, for (at least) your...
... Well, I don't know of any studies per se, but I can give you some qualitative reasons for the above. Red labels- The big reason is that they're garish. A...
... The short answer: You're not going to find a usability study (not a UI study, since I have no clue what that might be) that says that. The long answer:...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Well...I was hoping for a *bit* more feedback than just "learn Cocoa..."--my guess is it will be simpler to tweak my interface as needed, at...
... I'd suggest to just have a look at some of the example apps in / Developer/Examples/AppKit or those provided on Apple's developer website. They'll give you...
... Strictly spoken, I think we're going off-topic here, but since this list isn't too high on traffic, I think my moderator self will let us all get away with...
... Hash: SHA1 ... If that's the case, then an awful lot of languages won't be able to run on OS X anymore. Most cross-platform languages bind to Carbon,...
... Then there is the opposite side of the spectrum: the poor souls like myself who still use lots of asm. It's quite nice when you write a function, and the...
... At the last WWDC, Apple made the point of saying that out of the 3000 developers they have, only five are dedicated to working on Carbon. I have no idea...
... Hash: SHA1 ... - From what I've read, moving MS Office and Photoshop from Codewarrior to Xcode is a massive undertaking. That's why you still haven't seen...
... I would also suggest reading Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). They will help you to get the look and feel of a Mac program. In terms of...
Jon Hull
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Sep 13, 2006 1:58 pm
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... I don't think they'll have to migrate to a Cocoa codebase right now - all the existing Carbon APIs (minus some that have been deprecated for a couple of...
... Oh, I would also recommend removing the "Are you sure you want to quit?" dialog. Just quit! If you are worried about the user loosing their place, then...
Jon Hull
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Sep 13, 2006 2:06 pm
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... There are human factor studies (I just can't provide a reference) which clearly state and show that red text is hard for a human to read - it has something...
... It is...in part because X-Code has been broken when dealing with such large applications. They are slowly resolving this issues, but not as quickly as...
... But most of the Carbon APIs aren't deprecated, right? So you can still go ahead and write applications using Carbon. Just don't use QuickDraw et al ...
I'd like to add to this by suggesting that it may not be best to look for evidence that supports your claim, but to state a problem, and find out what the...
... Answering the question directly may lead to an unenlightening answer :-) The short answer: Usability design decisions should not be based on individual...
... I'm available to meet with you 1:1, provided you have membership within the Apple Developer Connection (<http://connect.apple.com>), to review your...
... What's keeping those other languages from providing their own C wrappers around ObjC to bind to? They're similar enough. Also there's objc_msgSend(). I'm...
Sorry for the quote-only message, I mis-clicked and by accident sent the message before I'd written in it ... gosh, modern computers sure are fast these days. ...
... I would really like to answer this. Sadly, I'm not allowed to do so. Let me just go out on a limb here by saying that Carbon really is a place you don't...
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