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[Klaus Major]

Hi Scott

> OK, so where in time are the Macintosh and Windows icons used for the 
> answer
> dialog?
>
> One (992) is located in the Icon Chooser stack.  The Motif icons are 
> there
> too.  But the remaining Mac icons and all the Windows icons appear to 
> be out
> in the IDE ether somewhere (ids: 993,994,995,996,997,998,999).
>
> Who's a good detective here?

Find them on card 481 to 487 of stack ehm... "icons" ;-) of stack 
"mctools"...

> OK, next point: appearance.  Yes, it could be nice to make the answer 
> dialog
> icons spiffy like the latest OS appearances, but what happens if you 
> build
> for Win98 or Mac OS9?  In these cases, it seems the old icons are a 
> good
> enough fit for those systems.  Should a new set of icons be used when 
> modern
> OS's are in play?  Should the answer dialog be "intelligent" to know 
> that
> "if the systemVersion > x, then use icons abc"?

Sounds like a good idea to me :-)

You got my vote!

> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Development & Design

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de


P.S.
What the heck is "ollie ollie oxen free"??? :-D