From: Ven & C. I. <vi...@bi...> - 2011-03-29 21:48:05
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Agree with Mark wholeheartedly - this is what I call the 80-20 solution.... get something working first. Ven ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Miesfeld To: rex...@li... Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [Rexxtill-devel] lets talk GUI - STATIC vs DYNAMIC On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <sah...@wi...> wrote: I'm inclined to think that we don't need a dynamic display, because I think we can acheive what we need to with a static display where you can change the keycap images, send controls to the front & and hide & show controls as necessary. I agree 100%. I think there are 2 things here, we are aiming at a small business. The small business owner is not going to want to spend the time and effort to design a dynamic screen. The people in the business that use the screen are not going to want to learn different layouts all the time, they will just want a static screen so that they don't need to think about it. And, I'm going to use this opportunity to give some response to the general conversation so far, rather than try to respond to the individual posts. Rather than try to design, in the first step, an application that can meet all future possibilities, I would favor a more incremental approach. More along the lines of agile development, without wanting to get into a long discussion if I'm technically correct in using the term 'agile development.' An approach that uses iteration and refactoring to achieve a quality product, rather than exhaustive, up front, analysis and design. I wouldn't start out by trying to design a layout manager, I would start by designing a simple application that could meet the needs of Jon's company. And I wouldn't expect the first iteration to actually meet those needs. I would expect the first iteration to get the basic objects in place, and succeeding iterations to get the basic objects working well. -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rexxtill-devel mailing list Rex...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rexxtill-devel |