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Extension Jigsaws (Re: Happy Mac People)

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From: Lawrence Flowers
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.

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