Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!keith From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Progress indicator/thermometers Message-ID: <53895@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 12 Jun 91 00:35:33 GMT References: <676362409.57@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 25 In article shores@fergvax.unl.edu (Shores) writes: >In comp.sys.mac.programmer you write: > >>Yet another of these things Apple should made standard and include >>in the ROM. Alas. > >Yep. If Apple insists that we do things their way, they should either >build it into the System or provide code for it. A thing that comes to >mind is the discussion about the "Save Changes" dialog in Inside Mac 6. >If they want the buttons exactly 13.00000000 pixels from the border and >so on, why not whip up a small sample code note with the dialog >resources for us? I'd be much more willing to conform if canned code >were already available. Same thing for their font sizing dialog on page >2-34. Such samples came on the 7.0 CD. I expect them to show up at APDA sometime as part of the rest of DTS's sample code. I'm not sure, but they may be on Apple's ftp site, as well. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "But where the senses fail us, reason must step in." - Galileo