How to build a quality GUI!

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:38:37PM +0800, John wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:

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> >Personally this is exactly how I design software, because the UI is the
> >hard bit.  The guts should be modular and flexible enough to fit around
> >any UI (because after all, one writes them as a library for all types of
> >UI).
> 
> Both are important. There is a good argument for something that works 
> without a GUI but can work with one: this allows for development of 
> multiple GUIs.
> 
> OTOH a program that doesn't have a UI at all can mostly not be said to 
> work at all: Imagine a file-copying program with no UI?

What, like cp? :)

Trent

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