HUG, Pinstripes, OSX - probably all "revisisted"

[william humphrey]

Add some more beta testers... (to dilute their vote)

On 6/8/07, Scott Kane <scott at cdroo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an app in beta (actually a couple, but the Mac one is giving me the
> headaches).  Basically the group of Mac users are six people interested in
> the field the app aims to assist (it's a database program of reasonable
> complexity).  Try as I might I can't get these guys (and girls) to be
> reasonable over the pinstripe issue in OSX where the document window should
> be white (according to Apples' HIG and as Revolution quite rightly
> defaults).  Essentially they are used to seeing applications (some by Apple)
> that break this rule and pinstripe the main window.  Now - I can solve this
> by putting in a graphic of pinstripes, but then I have the whole issue of
> the degree of pinstripe as the users have machines running Jaguar through to
> Tiger on PPC's.  They are being really picky over this and as there is no
> way (that I know of) of getting Rev to identify which OSX is running so I
> have to choose one.  The two running Tiger are the worst offenders (they
> even get upset if the light on the icons are shining from slightly the wrong
> angle so you can imagine my frustration with them).  Question is - how are
> some of you solving this?  I've read the archives of the list that I could
> find discussing this but most of the discussion is about using images to
> fake the pinstripe, which bring me back to square one.  For the record -
> I've shown them the relevant sections of the Apple HIG and they either don't
> get it or don't want to.  As my design experience in the past is pretty much
> Windows I'd value your opinions (beyond shooting the beta testers <g>)
> highly.
>
> Cheers
>
> Scott
>
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