Ben Rubinstein wrote:
On 29/06/2016 00:28, Richard Gaskin wrote:
People do all sorts of things. Some might even have a 45-degree angled
progress bar. Not everything folks might want comes in the tin. :)
Yep, but lots of people want horizontal and vertical progress bars, which do
come in our tin - they just look... merde.
There's no reason that the progress bars and sliders that we put on our stacks
shouldn't look like the ones here (from Scott's tmControls)
http://tmtools.tactilemedia.com/tmcontrol2/images/controls_sliders.gif
http://tmtools.tactilemedia.com/tmcontrol2/images/controls_progress.gif
or that radio buttons/checkboxes shouldn't look like any of these
http://i.stack.imgur.com/7VPKA.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/1DRjw.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/RFSpQ.png
http://bit.ly/1OqOPqI
http://kintek.com.au/assets/checkbox_radio_buttons_ios.jpg
http://i.stack.imgur.com/bDByc.png
... which aren't 'correct' - but wouldn't look embarrassing.
Well, there *are* reasons, but yes, for a product whose sales are so
dependent on mobile it would seem a shift in priorities would be useful.
But while it's easy to write a sentence or two of things describing
others to do, it's not quite as easy to actually do the work.
OS APIs change out from under the engine with expensive regularity, and
all the while, even as mobile enhancements would indeed be valuable,
there's a rather long list of other things we're asking them to do as well.
Stuck as we are in a world without magic ponies, which current
development priorities would you prefer to see them set aside to write
progress bar and slider widgets?
Would it perhaps be in the better interests of the community of
scripters to put together a team to script those in LC Builder and let
the C++ engineers remain focused on things requiring C++?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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