The past week or two I have been down with the flu (not the swine variant but who knows, the way it is mutating I could have caught the alcohol variant?). With the snorters and eyeballs nearly falling out of my head, I couldn't do anything but hold up in bed until it passed. When it did pass a little, I worked on the MS Access problem and had some more time to think about the alternative desktop I had mentioned.
I was thinking about how to display the application in context of the overall User Interface. As many different types of application with differing ways of displaying output are used, it will be a issue on how to implement it. I think the most crucial ones are:
- The way the data is displayed ie text areas or cells
- What parts are read only and what is read/write
- The way the data is represented in terms of colour font etc to highlight data
- Borders which may be required to reference data ie cell co-ordinates or ruler
Another big issue that needs to be overcome is how to implement specific functionality to each application like for instance, applying formatting to text, add a formula to spreadsheet cell or insert calendar note. The only way I can think of at moment is to a right click menu. As these are scaled down versions of the ones available on the desktop of a lot less features, this may work.
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