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The first edition, which is based on Qt 4.1, is available + \l{http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip}{online}. + + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385267746/trolltech/t}{The Design of Everyday Things}} + by Donald Norman, ISBN 0-38526774-6, is one of the classics of human + interface design. Norman shows how badly something as simple as a + kitchen stove can be designed, and everyone should read it who will + design a dialog box, write an error message, or design just about + anything else humans are supposed to use. + + \target fowler + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070592748/trolltech/t}{GUI Design Handbook}} + by Susan Fowler, ISBN 0-07-059274-8, is an + alphabetical dictionary of widgets and other user interface elements, + with comprehensive coverage of each. Each chapter covers one widget + or other element, contains the most important recommendation from the + Macintosh, Windows and Motif style guides, notes about common + problems, comparison with other widgets that can serve some of the + same roles as this one, etc. + + \target Design Patterns + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201633612/103-8144203-3273444} + {Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software}} + by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, ISBN 0-201-63361-2, provides + more information on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm, explaining + MVC and its sub-patterns in detail. + + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201622165/trolltech/t}{Macintosh + Human Interface Guidelines}}, Second Edition, ISBN + 0-201-62216-5, is worth buying for the \e {don't}s alone. Even + if you're not writing Macintosh software, avoiding most of what it + advises against will produce more easily comprehensible software. + Doing what it tells you to do may also help. This book is now available + \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-2.html + online\endlink and there is a + \link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-2.html Mac + OS 8 addendum.\endlink + + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t}{The + Microsoft Windows User Experience}}, ISBN 1-55615-679-0, + is Microsoft's look and feel bible. Indispensable for everyone who + has customers that worship Microsoft, and it's quite good, too. + It is also available + \link http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/welcome.asp online\endlink. + + \bold{\l{http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047159900X/trolltech/t}{The Icon Book}} + by William Horton, ISBN 0-471-59900-X, is perhaps the only thorough + coverage of icons and icon use in software. In order for icons to be + successful, people must be able to do four things with them: decode, + recognize, find and activate them. This book explains these goals + from scratch and how to reach them, both with single icons and icon + families. Some 500 examples are scattered throughout the text. + + + \section1 Buying these Books from Amazon.com + + These books are made available in association with Amazon.com, our + favorite online bookstore. Here is more information about + \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/shipping-policy.html/t + Amazon.com's shipping options\endlink and its + \link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/help/desk.html/t + customer service.\endlink When you buy a book by following one of these + links, Amazon.com gives about 15% of the purchase price to + \link http://www.amnesty.org/ Amnesty International.\endlink + +*/ |