Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Style Guide Published Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 12:54:51 GMT References: <20590@cbmvax.commodore.com> Lines: 33 >In article <20590@cbmvax.commodore.com> mark@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Green - CATS) writes: > > >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." And I'll attempt to buy the fist copy that hits Oklahoma! :-) >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. We BADLY need an updated document on dos.library and AmigaDOS. If it wasn't for Randall Jesup and others here on the net, I would *never* be able to figure out that stuff other than by disassembling dos.library's code. >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. Glad to hear us orphaned Amiga 1000 owners will still find the book useful. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |