ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (04/12/91)
>In article <20590@cbmvax.commodore.com> mark@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Green - CATS) writes: > > >Addison-Wesley has published the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. They tell >us that the book should be available in North America by May 1, "wherever >computer books are sold." And I'll attempt to buy the fist copy that hits Oklahoma! :-) >The style guide is a manual for software developers and interface designers >that describes how a standard user interface for Amiga applications should >look and operate. It's a 200+ page book with descriptions and illustrations. >Together with the ROM Kernel manuals it makes up what Addison-Wesley calls >the Amiga Technical Reference Series. We BADLY need an updated document on dos.library and AmigaDOS. If it wasn't for Randall Jesup and others here on the net, I would *never* be able to figure out that stuff other than by disassembling dos.library's code. >The standards in the book were compiled by members of Commodore Engineering, >CATS, and third-party Amiga developers. Although much of the book's content >corresponds to Release 2 of the operating system, the illustrations and >behavioral descriptions can also act as guides for designers working with >earlier versions of the operating system. Glad to hear us orphaned Amiga 1000 owners will still find the book useful. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |
mark@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mark Green - CATS) (04/12/91)
Addison-Wesley has published the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. They tell us that the book should be available in North America by May 1, "wherever computer books are sold." The style guide is a manual for software developers and interface designers that describes how a standard user interface for Amiga applications should look and operate. It's a 200+ page book with descriptions and illustrations. Together with the ROM Kernel manuals it makes up what Addison-Wesley calls the Amiga Technical Reference Series. The standards in the book were compiled by members of Commodore Engineering, CATS, and third-party Amiga developers. Although much of the book's content corresponds to Release 2 of the operating system, the illustrations and behavioral descriptions can also act as guides for designers working with earlier versions of the operating system. It includes chapters on: Windows and Requesters, Gadgets, The Shell, ARexx, Data Sharing, and Preferences, as well as a glossary which can also double as a documentation style guide. As it says in a press release we issued, the style guide is intended to give the Amiga a more ``friendly, intuitive and predictable interface.''