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Software information: RISC OS Style Guide

The RISC OS Style Guide describes the ‘look and feel’ that a developer should use when writing a RISC OS application. This covers not just how the application looks on the desktop, but also how it interacts with other applications, standard keyboard shortcuts, and so on.

Chapter list:

  • Introduction
  • Starting a new application
  • The desktop
  • The mouse
  • Icons
  • Standard operations
  • Windows
  • Menus
  • Dialogue boxes and toolboxes
  • Handling keyboard input
  • Handling selection
  • Colour and sound
  • Configurations and user choices
  • International support
  • Implementing the design
  • Application directories
Created on November 19, 2020 08:34:23 by Stuart Painting (5389)? (2.30.4.73)
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