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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Tech Note 203 (Don't abuse the Managers)
Keywords: dialogs
Message-ID: <381@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 90 06:31:28 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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I was just looking over technote 203, "Don't abuse the managers".  Most of
the stuff is reasonable enough, but the section on the dialog manager
left me gasping for breath.  Don't use the dialog manager if the dialog
will contain more than 20 items?  I can put 20 items into a dialog withou
even blinking--four radio groups of four buttons each, plus a title for
each, plus and OK anc CANCEL button--there, that's 22 items.  And I'm
not supposed to use the dialog manager if my dialog contains a pictorially
active control, even just a scroll bar?  C'mon!  Why is that ability there,
if it's not intended to be used?  If Apple is serious about these constraints,
then it sounds to me like they should be saying, "Well, we gave you the
dialog manager, but don't use it for dialogs.  Program your own from the
ground up instead."  Welcome to the world of IBM.  Yay!

Just some whining from someone who's a bit ticked off.
Ken McDonald
{mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca}