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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
 
: I use it for anything that isn't going to be OS-specific. But if you
: are OS-specific you are going to want to use the OS's standard GUI, so
: that everything looks and behaves the way the user expects. That's one
: of the main reasons why you really can't make one "standard" GUI for
: everyone.

And not even on one OS one grand unified GUI makes sense in all
cases. Look at Photoshop's control windows, Framemaker has deviations
that I don't want to miss, and so on. I think it is really a pity
that supposedly standard "controls" are available at all, because
this essentially stops UI developement towards applications that are
really integrated into the OS. No need to build standard windows into
your aplications, instead leave that to the OS!
MS is doing a good job of
slowly leading Windows GUI users (and developers!) towards what is 
already there, but rarely used:
Ever noticed that you can use the container window that appears after
"select Menu, chose File Open" much the same way you can use a very similar 
window outside applications, employing drag&drop, creating resources, 
deleting files, ...?
Why on earth are there file open dialogs in a _G_UI?

- georg