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Adobe AIR, Webcam Motion Detection program (New York Factory Robo)

I made a little application with New York Factory Robo icons. you can see it here. http://gfxcomplex.com/blog/?p=76

Posted by joshchernoff on Dec 20, 2007 in Show Off | 4 comments

Stratification on Dec 20, 2007

Looks nice, not going to install it here since I don't have a webcam so it wouldn't do me much good. Any particular reason you didn't go with native chrome? Or did you do it just because you could?

joshchernoff on Dec 20, 2007

I use windows and I dislike the default look. Plus customizing the chrome gives it a level of quality that can only come from the extra time it takes to make it unique.

misterhaan on Dec 20, 2007

i generally perceive applications with custom chrome to have a lower level of quality unless there’s a good reason for it. i don’t like the default look of windows either but i still prefer everything looking and working consistent to a few programs looking different because someone thought it would look better.

joshchernoff on Dec 20, 2007

custom chromes are fine to use as long as you make it intuitive to what the functions of the UI represent. It's still my opinion that applications that use the default chromes looks lazy to me. but thats just my two cents.