Re: A little guidance
Re: A little guidance
- Subject: Re: A little guidance
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 11:05:41 -0700
Al Kirkus wrote:
|I am designing a program which will contain a "timeline" onto which
|the user can drag and drop and reorder various objects; ...
|
|Should it be in a custom view?
Unless you can find a standard view class that does what you want (exceedinly unlikely), it will *have* to be a custom view. (The nearest standard view that comes to mind offhand is NSMatrix, which imposes the requirement that each item in the matrix--including items with nothing in them--be the same size. I'd think you'd want to be able to have each item its own size.)
|Should/can I use PDF images for the background?
Can you? Yes. (As the saying goes, "you can do anything with software.") Should you? It depends. Would having a background other than plain old solid white (or perhaps a pale solid color) improve the usability of the timeline? Or would it get in the way? If using a PDF background improves the usability, then by all means have one. Otherwise, you're probably better off without it. Generally, the rule of thumb for interface design (which is what you're asking about) is "less is more". (However, as Einstein says, "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.")
Glen Fisher
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