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- From: heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ToolMaker from CATS
- Message-ID: <heinz.02xm@edohwg.UUCP>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 23:46:50 GMT
- References: <1B776606WK@tron.gun.de> <63842@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Edotronik GmbH
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- In article <63842@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
- >Toolmaker is shipping(at least my copy arrived a few days ago). It
- >is powerful tool for building 2.0 compatible interfaces. I did read
- >[...]
- >
- >While it is powerful, I did have a couple of minor nits... I created
-
- IMHO a _major_ shortcoming of Toolmaker is that it is all font dependent.
- Its user interfaces seem to be completely hardcoded and in no way
- resolution (i.e. font) independent. This makes for lots of ugly topaz 8 SW
- that is practically unusuable on a bigger screen like a 1024x1024 display.
- And it sort of violates developer guidelines for 2.0 which say that "thou
- shalt respect the useres preferred font!" ;-)
-
- :-((((((((((((((((((((
-
-
-
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- Heinz Wrobel, Edotronik GmbH (ECG018)
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- "It's good to have a mouse, it's faster if you can do without one..."
- "He who doesn't develop with an A2024 doesn't know about font independent
- user interfaces..."
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