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Article #1266Extension Jigsaws (Re: Happy Mac People)
From: Lawrence Flowers
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 00:00
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Alan W. Frame wrote: > > Simon Slavin <slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote: > > alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame) wrote: > > > > > can anyone explain why some extensions (e.g. AppleScript) > > > have horizontally-oriented "jigsaw" icons , but others (Quicktime) are > > > vertically-oriented? > > > > > > I don't know, honest!, but I reakon if there is a reason, then it's > > > a good bit of MacTrivia(tm). > > > > The guidelines for creating such icons recommend that you choose > > whichever orientation best suits the graphic you want to display. > > They provide examples in each orientation so you can cut out the > > outlines. In other words, Apple don't care which way one you use. > > Ta - I must have missed that one. > It's worth getting to, or trying to get the video from APDA, > of the "Stump the Experts" session from the Apple DevCons - punters > (i.e. developers) try to outsmart Apple Engineers with MacTrivia...:-) Actually, there must be four very dull jigsaw puzzels as I can't find any which have pegs or sockets on anything but opposite sides and allways one of each. -- Lawrence Flowers | If I hadn't seen such riches, LEAF TECHNICAL SERVICES LIMITED | I could live with being poor. http://www.leaftech.demon.co.uk | mailto:leaf@leaftech.demon.co.uk | James - Sit Down
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,3e32a51c1b0ab29f X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> Subject: Extension Jigsaws (Re: Happy Mac People) Date: 1998/04/01 Message-ID: <35220DE8.1E47E1@teaftech.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 339786761 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3517F342.9341446D@teaftech.demon.co.uk> <19980327192641290551@newtechd.demon.co.uk> <B14480D396681BC23@hearsay.demon.co.uk> <19980331002855936639@newtechd.demon.co.uk> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leaftech.demon.co.uk [158.152.171.85] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: LEAF Technical Services Limited Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac