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- From: peterc@cubetech.com (Peter Creath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Kudos to NOW for 4.0 Startup Manager
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:23:26 CDT
- Organization: Cube Technologies
- Message-ID: <dx3uv972.d7scu1@moebius.cubetech.com>
- Reply-To: peterc@cubetech.com
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- In article <aland.715963776@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:
- > bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes:
- > >[flame flame flame re: bad crossposting, which I read on comp.sys.mac.apps,]
- > >[much to my amusement]
- > >A more serious flaw of programs that do show their inits is the fact that
- > >they draw them after they have run and not during (when crashing it is
- > >very offesive).
- >
- > I don't agree that the inits should show icons during processing...
- > I thought that drawing the icon afterwards was a good thing, because
- > it showed that you (the init) loaded successfully.
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- What they SHOULD do is have at least two icons: 1 for saying "I'm
- beginning to load" (so if it crashes, you know which one it is), and
- 1 for saying "I've successfully loaded". Most already have two, but
- one is for "I've sucessfully loaded" and "I couldn't load". At least
- 3 (in other words, excluding animation) is optimum.
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- Of course SAM is just obnoxious and has about 16 that it randomly
- chooses from (different colors).
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- Peter Creath "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could
- peterc@cubetech.com become president; I'm beginning to believe it."
- -- Clarence Darrow
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