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Originally posted by legion
Keep in mind, part of the reason business apps have boring, similar interfaces is so that you don't have to memorize the specifics of every program you use...
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That, and building decent UIs in MFC takes an army of engineers.
The standardized UI objects in MFC are butt-ugly as well. That multi-level toolbar belongs in the trash. Seriously, Id like to punch the guy who cooked that thing up.
Why put in the effort to make it look good when the tools are crap, the objects are ugly, and the code impossible to use? Thats the reason why I wrote more tools in VisualBasic than in MFC when I was on that side of the fence. I could get more done in less time with
VB and just settled with the knowledge that it all looked like crap.
As for good Apple UIs in the business style, check out
Automator,
OmniGraffle,
QuickBooks,
AccountEdge, etc.
Search around
VersionTracker as well, its a big storage/search website of thousands of Apple-based projects, Im sure they have business stuff on there like what you'll looking for.
Heres the business section of VersionTracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/cat/business