[Adobe-source-devel] Control grouping

[David C. <unc...@un...>]

I've been thinking about the best way to imitate the OS X prefs dialog  
layout in Eve, as seen here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/ 
OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGLayout/chapter_11_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/ 
uid/TP30000360/CHDEACGD

Maybe there can be a different approach: let the "group box" be a more  
general concept - a bunch of controls with a label - with different  
possible representations (see the Grouping Controls page of the AHIG):
* The two-column "preferences" layout
* A regular group box control - ie an actual box with a label above it
* A text label above an indented set of controls, with (optionally?) a  
separator line filling up the rest of the horizontal space after the  
label

The two-column layout may be less normal on Windows, so perhaps a  
different layout could be used there.

-- 
David Catmull
unc...@un...
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