Re: Cross-Platform Windows plus Mac

In comp.sys.mac.programmer.help Armel Asselin <armelasselin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Doc O'Leary" <droleary.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> For a very loose definition of "correct".  I haven't seen a single
>> wxWidget-based app that works the way a Mac user expects.  Please point
>> me to yours by name, or any such app based on a ****table library that
>> doesn't quite simply blow.  Appealing to the lowest common denominator
>> ends up being very unappealing.
> the definition of 'correct' definitely depends on what you expects from
an 
> application.
> From our point of view, the application should work and be reasonably 
> similar to a solution developped solely for the target platform. 
> Nonetheless, if a few widgets are not 'native-looking' and if we have no
or 
> few platform-specific 'eye-candy' stuff, it's perfectly ok.

You are of course free to do as you wish. If your target market is people 
who aren't terribly concerned about user experience, or people who care 
much more about being able to use your product than about how good its GUI

is, then this would definitely make sense.

However, I just wanted to point out that the major deficiencies in such 
applications are not in how they *look*, but in how they *act*. These apps

often miss platform-specific expected behaviors such as keyboard 
shortcuts, toolbar usage, proxy icons, dirty window indications, etc. 
Poor looks can be ignored, but poor behavior is tougher.

Anyway, you may know all this already, but I thought I would mention it. 
Much of this can of course be worked around if you devote sufficient 
attention to the Mac ****t. Let us know how it works out for you.

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software