In short, applications that are ported to the platform with the express intent of maintaining their look and feel from Windows do little more than treat OS X users as second-class citizens. No one likes paying money for that feeling so at the end of the day, I doubt the port will see even remote success unless you re-evaluate how the app will fit in.
Just to be clear, the parts we're trying to reproduce, are both non standard Windows UI, and UI that is well known to our potential Mac users. And if you can reproduce the Dock in under 24 hours you will be doing something that a large number of seasoned Mac developers would be unable to do (yes, you could probably get it kind of, sort of working but even worse than creating a control that user's don't expect is creating a control so similar to a system element that behaves even slightly differently). Well, all I ever wanted was a row of buttons that animates like the dock, that didn't seem like it should be so hard, but we've agreed it's a bad idea anyhow, so it doesn't really matter anymore. Thanks Christian _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
