Bad Reasons to Use Custom Controls

I consider the following to be really bad reasons to use custom controls:

  • You think they are cool, but the standard controls would do the job just fine.
  • You want your program to have a different look—just for the sake of being different.
  • You found a really cool ActiveX control on the Internet and want to use it in your program somehow.

Whenever I use a program with nonstandard controls used for one of these reasons, I find it's as if the program is shouting, "Hey look at me! I'm not normal! I want your attention!"



Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
ISBN: 0735605866
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 334

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