LC8 Geometry Manager

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:

 > Richard Gaskin <ambassador at ...> writes:
 >
 >> Rather than the IDE try to guess what I'm going, perhaps it could
 >> simply provide options for the selected object and let me make my
 >> own choices.
 >
 > Now, Richard, runrev knows what's best for you better than you do.
 > Just let them make the decisions and stop Questioning Authority.
 > <g>

Ah, I see: Steve Jobs faked his death so he could secretly work on 
LiveCode? :)


Like the File -> New Stack submenu, the Inspector's shortcomings are 
obvious enough that I'm confident what we have now is merely a quickie 
prototype for a much better user experience to come as v8 moves closer 
to completion.


 > ...next stop The Ribbon...

At the risk of having more food thrown at me, I actually like many 
things about the Ribbon.  I have great respect for data-driven the 
methodology employed by Jensen Harris and his team, very similar to 
Marissa Mayer's best work at Google before she left and their apps 
became cluttered.

If you look back as Harris' design blog during the Ribbon's development 
and read between the lines it becomes clear that the implementation we 
see today is a compromise likely driven by impatient middle managers 
more than where the team was headed.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx>

Not useful in a development tool like LiveCode, but for many consumer 
apps I think the Ribbon can be a good choice, perhaps better with more 
time in researching to refine it.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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