Re: [Rexxtill-devel] lets talk GUI - STATIC vs DYNAMIC

[Sahananda (J. W. <sah...@wi...>]

Thank you Mark,

It is a relief to hear this.  I have found myself getting anxious that I
wont be able to produce something that meets the demand for a formal
complete professional up-front design, but this sounds more acheivable.

Jon

On 29 March 2011 15:12, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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