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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Interface Builder observations
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Date: 15 Feb 91 14:51:20 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) / Feb 15, 1991 /
> 2.  It is the only program I've seen that alters the look of its
>     icon while it's in the dock (when you're in "test interface"
>     mode it turns into a giant switch).  How on earth does it do
>     this?  It seems like it too must be a hack.

What about Mail, FaxManager, Monitor?  (Then there's the recycler icon, but
I don't know if you can count Workspace Manager as an application...)

> 4.  You can't type a copyright symbol for love or money into a
>     text field in IB.  It doesn't seem to use the standard
>     keyboard mapping from Preferences.

I haven't tried it in 2.0, but in 1.0 you could, as long as your text field
was in Symbol font.  The problem was that text fields are monofont, and the
copyright symbol is in the Symbol font, even though it's accessible from
the Times/Helvetica/etc. keyboard.

> Admittedly, the line-drawing paradigm that IB uses when you control-drag
> to make a connection is very nice feedback, but overall it seems that
> Interface Builder has a rather non-standard user interface and appears
> to rely on things which are not supported by the AppKit, which I find
> to be a bit ironic.

Yeah, but the the flip side is that IB seems to drive the standards.  For
example, in 1.0 it was the only NeXT-shipped app that used inspector
panels.  Now they are used all over the place.

Jacob
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