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From: blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Menus in NDA windows
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Date: 13 Dec 89 09:20:53 GMT
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In article <13980.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.COM (Mark Munz) writes:
> [ A whole lotta stuff that I deleted ]
>I say keep experimenting.  When folks don't like the interface, they
>say so, and the author either lives with bad press or makes it better.

	What scares me is that the NDA in question is (I think) WriteIt! by
Chris Haun (I think I got the name right, but no guarantees), who's the guy
that's writing Design Master (which Byteworks says they're going to publish).
If Design Master has the same level of professionality to the UI, I think that
we're in trouble... WriteIt's primary merit is that it exists, and appears to
be bug free. Btw, has anyone looked into his code enough to figure out how he
handles loading/unloading TextEdit (and the support tools)? It would seem that
he broke the "Golden NDA rule" into a few billion small pieces...

>--Mark Munz


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