Style Guide

A fully revised and updated Style Guide for RISC OS, this Guide is an essential part of any RISC OS developer's reference. It describes the standards of 'look and feel' to which you should write a RISC OS application. The main aim of the Guide is to help all developers to give their applications a common and consistent look and feel so that users will be able to find their way around new programs easily and will be able to use applications together when appropriate. There is advice on how to implement this, and detailed descriptions of how to produce the icons you will need to use in your dialogue boxes and windows.

Extending to some 154 pages the guide includes the following major changes:

Lifting of dated restrictions to applications such as memory, colours, and screen resolutions
Requirement to use standard cut-and-paste, and preferably the drag-and-drop models for selection
Full details of the facilities afforded by the Choices directory inside the Universal Boot sequence
Guidance on how to handle Unicode, desktop themes, and alpha transparency
Integration of the help and keyboard improvements introduced with the Iyonix
Promotion of the Toolbox to effortlessly create Style Guide compliant applications
Richer dialogue layouts through use of the Nested Window Manager
Presenting lists of information in a tree or grouped into tabs

as well as numerous corrections, revised or improved drawings and screenshots.

The Issue 4 Style Guide costs just £15 plus P&P. Existing DDE owners can purchase the book with an exclusive 20% discount by quoting their developer number which starts with ‘DEV07’.

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