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From: mark@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Green - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Style Guide Published
Keywords: interface, standards
Message-ID: <20590@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 16:32:30 GMT
Reply-To: mark@cbmvax.UUCP (Mark Green - CATS)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Addison-Wesley has published the Amiga User Interface Style Guide.  They tell
us that the book should be available in North America by May 1, "wherever
computer books are sold."

The style guide is a manual for software developers and interface designers
that describes how a standard user interface for Amiga applications should
look and operate. It's a 200+ page book with descriptions and illustrations.
Together with the ROM Kernel manuals it makes up what Addison-Wesley calls
the Amiga Technical Reference Series.

The standards in the book were compiled by members of Commodore Engineering,
CATS, and third-party Amiga developers. Although much of the book's content
corresponds to Release 2 of the operating system, the illustrations and
behavioral descriptions can also act as guides for designers working with
earlier versions of the operating system.

It includes chapters on: Windows and Requesters, Gadgets, The Shell, ARexx,
Data Sharing, and Preferences, as well as a glossary which can also double
as a documentation style guide.

As it says in a press release we issued, the style guide is intended to give
the Amiga a more ``friendly, intuitive and predictable interface.''