Re: Animated toolbar
Re: Animated toolbar
- Subject: Re: Animated toolbar
- From: Christian Graus <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:25:19 +1100
In short, applications that are ported to the platform with the
express intent of maintaining their look and feel from Windows do
little more than treat OS X users as second-class citizens. No one
likes paying money for that feeling so at the end of the day, I doubt
the port will see even remote success unless you re-evaluate how the
app will fit in.
Just to be clear, the parts we're trying to reproduce, are both non standard
Windows UI, and UI that is well known to our potential Mac users.
And if you can reproduce the Dock in under 24 hours you will be doing
something that a large number of seasoned Mac developers would be
unable to do (yes, you could probably get it kind of, sort of working
but even worse than creating a control that user's don't expect is
creating a control so similar to a system element that behaves even
slightly differently).
Well, all I ever wanted was a row of buttons that animates like the dock,
that didn't seem like it should be so hard, but we've agreed it's a bad idea
anyhow, so it doesn't really matter anymore.
Thanks
Christian
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