Re: Milestones document

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

George wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:09:24PM +1030, NotZed wrote:
> > On that note, writing prefs dialogues and config saving sux bigtime -
> > so much bloat for so little functionality, but anyway.
> 
> I was thinnking about a sort of preprocessor to create all the properties
> code from a description of the peroperties themselves.  One of these days I
> may actually write it :)
> 
> George

While this may appear a good idea from the standpoint of "it is easy to
code", it is a horrible idea from a UI standpoint, because the UI is not
being touched by the author of the application, and this makes small
tweaks to improve the UI impossible, because it is being autogenerated.

    Jim Cape
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