Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-01-23 01:38:41 +0100 Alan West <alan@alanz.com> wrote:

> Pete French wrote:
>
> > > (nor a copyright assignment) - although there are issues of where to put 
> > > top-level menu items (like Hide and Quit).
> >
> > Sticking them along the top works fine - note that this what booth NeXTs and
> > Apples implemetations of menus do on Windows. It exapsrates me that this
> > just blatently doesnt work under OSx (or else I would have to write two
> > Renaissance files for my apps)
> After all an XML description of the user interface should be platform 
> independant.

.gorm is not platform independen? If not, why? If it is because of lack of 
.gorm file reader, then i do not see it as a problem of .gorm file.

Anyway, differences in interface *philosophy* cannot be solved by using any 
kind of common single UI description. It does not matter if it is 'platform 
independent' or not. And i think that the phrase 'platform independet' is 
really inappropriate in connection with 'user interface'.

Excuse me if it souded like flaming, I did not meant it that way.

Stefan