Why is Konfabulator "Pretty?"

[Bill Marriott]

Depends. What HIG specification are you wanting to follow? (link please.) 
I'm sure we could find portions where Rev deviates from it. There's nothing 
I know of in K. that would prevent one from creating an HIG-compliant 
widget.

One thing my early experiments seem to have shown me is that no way will I 
be able to make anything that relies on rotating a bitmap. It's just too 
slow and ugly in Rev :( I had thought I would be able to do that.

I believe my original point was that Rev would be more popular if it were 
easier to create "sexy" user interfaces like the ones in K. I've spent six 
to eight hours trying to get Rev to emulate the pretty little clock included 
with K, something that should be pretty easy. But it's not easy, and I think 
this reinforces what I said.

As for Apples-to-oranges, if you think this is the case then I don't think 
we'll ever be able to compare Rev to anything else.

Bill

"Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote 
in message news:43933C8F.8060009 at fourthworld.com...
> Bill Marriott wrote:
>> Further, any code comparisons between this and the Revolution 
>> implementations should consider equal feature comparisons:
>>
>> 1) Customizable tint for rim and background images
>> 2) Nice, realistically animated, "bouncy" second hand
>> 3) Date display that can be turned on/off
>> 4) Attractive custom images used for all elements (hands, face, rim, 
>> etc.)
>> 5) Preferences interface for colorization, chime interval, window level, 
>> etc.
>> 6) Variable Opacity through to the desktop
>>
>> It wouldn't be fair to compare the leanest possible Revolution clock to 
>> the fanciest possible clock widget, would it?
>
> No, but if this odd apples-to-oranges comparison is to be even more fair 
> we should also try to build a standard HIG-compliant app with 
> Konfabulator. ;)
>
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