Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
- Subject: Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
- From: Marc Poirier <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:55:57 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Urs Heckmann wrote:
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Yes, but to my understanding of the Mac World, AUHosting isn't the best
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example of User Interface design anyway. It ties together stuff that
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doesn't really belong together. It doesn't have the purpose to look &
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feel good. Try any fancy custom user interface in AUHosting. Ugly.
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Windows like AUHosting's are not common in our biz. If AUHosting is the
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only host that screws it up, I don't care, nobody uses it except
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developers. (And I still believe it does not look too bad...)
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Despite Logic (like Spark) having a Toolbar, Sheets still look very cool
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(or funky, if you prefer that term). And I have a certain use for that,
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it's not just "look what I can do".
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I'm really not interested in how hosts clutter the view with their
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stuff (If it does not belong to the plugin they may better keep out!).
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I want to know if there are any technical reasons not to use Sheets.
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That's all. Otherwise I'll open an OverlayWindow :-b - This is just
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more expensive, because I have to block some events...
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Reg. Apple Human Interface Guidelines, sorry, I already provide
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"strange" custom controls (and it's getting weirder every day). In
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fact, my Sheets come closer to them than most of my other controls, I
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bet.
Oh, I didn't mean to say that AUH is a host really worth worrying about
with respect to musicians using it to make music, I know that doesn't
happen, I was just saying that it's an example of a host that exhibits the
potential problem that I describe. But since currently it's the only host
like that, then you know that sheets will look okay in the other hosts.
Maybe one day another host will embed AUViews much lower down in a window,
with other significant window content, like AUH does, and then sheets will
not be so good, but maybe not, I don't know, but for now in practice
should work fine I think...
Marc
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