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- Item 4739976 7-June-89 19:09
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- From: X0501 MacApp Developers Assoc, C Nelson
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: Re: Doc w/o Wind
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- Documents w/o windows
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- Been a while since I have had time to sift through my AppleLinks,
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- In the design of an application with the Macintosh you are encouraged (forced)
- to take the pragmatic approach and see at what scale the Macintosh (and
- therefore MacApp) interface best fits the problem. In the case of the mythical
- accounting system Curtis and Les have brought up, a group of files are
- considered a single document and the typical MacApp TDocument design scales
- nicely to encompass the problem as pointed. Where I see the failing, as Larry
- R pointed out with the menubar problem of multifinder, is that the user
- interface needs to be taken one step further. There needs to be a ‘better way
- so that “the exisitance of things out of sight” does not occur or is minimized
- and the “document XXX is OPEN” and “Appliciation/Process Running” problem can
- be clearly understood by the typical user.
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- A possible solution is to take some of the menu commands or the ‘App,Doc,View
- states’ and clearly (and/or cleverly) display to the Mac user a point of
- referecence to work from. Making it a concrete “graphic” to work from such as
- a 'context' window/pallet/worksheet/toolbox (whatever makes sense) is a helpful
- starting place and helps to give an application/environment its look and feel.
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