[wxPython-dev] Using AUI in the demo

[Christopher Barker]

Kevin Ollivier wrote:
> As for tool palettes, for the most part, I don't recall seeing green 
> buttons on those either - just the red (close) button.

well, sure -- would anyone put a maximize button on a tool palette? A 
haven't messed with wxAUI yet, but you must be able to create a window 
that doesn't maximize.

> I think Mac already has AUI Style interfaces - like Omni apps, or 
> Photoshop/Dreamweaver, for example. (The Omni apps particularly are 
> slick IMHO - the tool palettes are magnetic and attach to each other if 
> you want.) But the core difference between those UIs and AUI is that the 
> palettes/panes in Mac UIs don't 'dock' onto a document window, and IMHO 
> that idea doesn't really make sense in a Mac context.

Does it make sense in any context? Maybe that "docking" should be 
optional everywhere.

Oh well, if Mac use continues to grow, maybe we'll get more developers 
helping keep wx up to par on OS-X. Of course, I'd like to see core 
things like the toolbar bugs fixed before this stuff anyway.

Thanks for all your work on wxMac.

-CHB

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