RE: Status of TKP Project

I was assuming, that the book is ready. Well I'll have to wait. But 
meanwhile, I'd like to contribute this list with a question and some 
examples.

Is missing view a keyhole?

I was in the MS Outlook team 95-98. Almost every general table 
viewing application seems to have two common view types: table 
and record. In this case inbox is your table view, mail item 
is the record view. 

But Outlook auto archive does not follow this, only record view. 
Inspecting one folder options is fine, but if you want to know 
all of your settings, there's no alternative but do each separately.
I talked about this to a program manager before leaving, and he 
agreed, that a table view is quite an obvious improvement. But it 
seems that the whole feature is not used much, since there's no 
table view available. Or maybe the feature is not used since table 
view is missing, a negative feedback cycle?

Also the MS Dev Studio group recognized, that one dialog for all 
the settings is not enough, but they implemented a bad solution. 
Setting up the build options is done via a dialog, that looks like 
a record view, but has some additions. You can select to view 
"All Configurations" and the you can set Debug and Release at the 
same time. While this sounds clever at first, it is very difficult 
to answer to questions like "which projects don't treat warnings 
as errors?" 

The Dev Studio team clearly builds with a makefile, since if they 
had to use that dialog themselves, they would have improved the 
situation. 

Kari

-----Original Message-----
From: software-keyholes-bounces-xIg/pKzrS18HpDbxM/[email protected]
[mailto:software-keyholes-bounces-xIg/pKzrS18HpDbxM/[email protected]]On Behalf Of Scott
Meyers
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 3:49 PM

Several people have written asking me if I've abandoned work on TKP.  I
haven't.  ...