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- From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
- Subject: Re: ProPage 3.0 looks like Windows!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.232637.12343@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:26:37 GMT
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- In article <712429304.AA9335@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> pmiller@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
- (Paul Miller) writes:
-
- >Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that ProPage 3.0 looks and
- >functions JUST LIKE WINDOWS! Right down to the STUPID 3D button (the
- >kind that when you push it in, the title shifts down and to the right -
- >yeah - REALLY realistic). No 2.0-look windows. Really slow menus and
- >dialog boxes that function on my A3000 like a 286 running Windows.
-
- This program provides numerous examples of how to deviate from style-guide
- compliance and furnish the user with an awkward and aesthetically distasteful
- interface. But if you think this one is bad, take a look at Pro Draw 3.0.
- Not only does it have the liabilities of PP 3.0, but it manages to create
- some of its own. In the meantime, the competition (Pagestream & ProVector),
- have been migrating to the 2.0 look-and-feel.
-
- >(Sorry about the flame, folks, but I just couldn't believe that such a noted
- >company would just decide to redefine the way an Amiga program should
- >behave - I wonder if they every heard of the Style Guide...)
-
- I think your perspective is one that we all have to take. CBM has already
- indicated that 1.3 support will no longer be guaranteed and that all products
- should already have been modified to fully function under 2.0. Within a
- short period of time, 1.3 products will be two generations removed.
-
- Mark
-
- P.S. You missed a good discussion concerning AD Pro and Imagemaster in the
- same context :).
-
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