We need to either switch to native toolkits for Carbide Create/Motion, or update the one being used to provide all standard UI behaviours. Things which annoy me to no end:
One nice thing about Windows is that if there is something you want there is almost always a free solution (or ten) to implement it.
I’m a graphic design guy (among other things) so you’d think I’d prefer a Mac but I’ve actually only used one once. It was many years ago at a college. I had put a floppy disk (remember those?) into the drive. When I was ready to leave, I went to eject the disk. There was no eject disk button on the drive! I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to get my disk back to no avail. I finally had to ask someone. The solution? You drag the disk icon into the garbage icon of course. But, but, wait, I don’t want to delete the disk, just eject it. Well, that’s how you do it on a Mac. That made absolutely no sense to me at all and so I figured that the Mac user interface was not going to do it for me. I haven’t touched an Apple product since.
A long, long while ago, the interface mechanism was changed so that when one selected a disk and began dragging the trash icon changed into an eject button. And FWIW, back when I started on the Mac, it was Command shift 1 to eject the internal floppy, and 2 for the external, and I’m pretty sure there was a “Put Away” command in the File menu for when a disk was selected.
You will note that there aren’t any free solutions to all but one of the issues which I enumerated, (I’m sure there’s a screengrab program which will do the single window thing, but it’s not worth it to me to find it and then install it on every Windows box I have to use) and only two (Miller column filebrowser and screengrab of designated window) have paid solutions.
Moreover, my complaints aren’t of interface oddities, but of basic functionality and # of steps required to perform basic tasks — no drag-drop to set targets in file windows in particular, costs me a lot of time/effort every day. Compare between:
to
Pretty much every job I do involves multiple files, and that drag on productivity happens pretty much for every file.
Scripting in Powershell feels like driving around a landscape filled with “Bridge out ahead” signs — manipulating apps w/o dictionary access as AppleScript affords is an agonizing burlesque of sequencing keyboard options and hoping nothing moves around — rarely worth the bother.
Ctrl + Alt + Print Scrn will screen grab the window with focus in Windows.
Windows also has the “Snipping Tool” on everything from Windows 7 and on I believe, just part of Windows, no add on software needed.
Dan
Thanks! Doesn’t get the drop shadow, and the corners are oddly filled in (no transparency), but it’s a good option for when I just need the window w/ no concern about aesthetics.
Another free option with neat features is LightShot:
http://app.prntscr.com/en/help.html
It makes snapshots super easy!
Yeah, I figured the interface probably changed over the years. Plus who uses floppies any more. 
I am sure I would like using a Mac if I tried it again, I’d just rather not have to learn two operating systems. While I’d love to kick MS to the curb, I have to use a PC for work and gaming and now CNC. It’s the same reason I haven’t made the switch to Linux. Someday…
I have used Greenshot before for screen grabbing. I really like it. I can’t use it at work sadly so I can’t test the issues Will mentions. It can be installed to a thumb drive so you can take that from computer to computer instead on installing it on each machine.
I never knew about dragging directories into file browser windows. That could be a useful feature and is probably something I would miss if I was used to it. I always just browse to the folder I want. If it’s a folder I use a lot, I make it a favorite. Most software saves the last folder you used so that usually helps. Carbide doesn’t though. Windows also saves the last directories you used for anything which is also very helpful.
The eject thing works for putting away flash drive, &c., and there’s a contextual menu for it as well.
I hate having to feel tethered to a machine 'cause my flash drive is plugged in.
Favorites only work in Windows in apps which support it — I use a broad variety of apps at work, pretty much each one has a different dialog box, and only a few of the newer ones support Favorites.
The Carbide Create and Carbide Motion don’t use standard UI interfaces / widgets has been something I’ve been complaining of since the CC early testing. It probably won’t change, but expressing my complaint makes me feel better.