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- From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: App(Icon|Window) and Style Guide.
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 05:33:17 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <EfAYvAu00WB_QsSQ1Q@andrew.cmu.edu> "Edward D. Berger" <eb15+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >the program icon would be: Program
- >the AppIcon for program would be: Program.1 or Program_App or ...
-
- I agree. It _SHOULD_ be either a tooltype, or internal to the program.
-
- >Having an AppIcon should be a user setting, as I may already have created one
- >with ToolManager, and not want to have 2 AppIcons for the same thing.
-
- How's this:
-
- (APPICON) No AppIcon
- APPICON Give me an AppIcon with the std. Icon as the image
- APPICON= (The 1.3 version of the above)
- APPICON = Sys:Icons/Yow Give me an AppIcon with the image given. If
- not found, use the std. icon as the image
-
- That's how _I_ think it should work.
-
- >I see no great reason to make AppIcons with different borders than standard
- >Icons, as I keep the 2 separate. AppIcons are out in the workbench window,
- >while Tool/Project Icons are in their drawers.
-
- However, this I disagree with. And it's because people use the "Leave
- Out" option for directories, sometimes. For instance, I've got
- "Prefs" sitting out on my workbench. I'd like to have visual feedback
- that it's not an appicon.
-
- The problems come in that without a different visual feedback, you're
- telling the user there's no difference between an AppIcon and a std.
- icon. I agree, lets standardize the drop system by making AppIcons
- and AppWindows have the "lip". More importantly, if, someday, C=
- decides to make an icon type (when .info files are no more, and
- everybody uses 2.0 std. functions for accessing them) that allows
- "dropping" onto them (The WB's copy function would simply examine the
- icon's type, and if it was of type STD_DropApp, do whatever), that
- icon could have a lip too.
-
- "lipping" windows and icons should become the standard look for
- droppable stuff. After all, aren't we trying to set a standard with a
- style guide? Let's do it, then, and standardize your own standards.
- :)
-
- Greg
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