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Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????

>From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
>Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:48:31 +0100
>
>For _some_ applications I would like to be able to interpret keyDown:'s in
>the dock icon as well.

Hopefully you meant mouseDown:'s... :-)


>For example, one of my OpenStep applications used
>mini-buttons inside its icon to perform its functionality (switching
>keyboards). I feel for _some_ tasks it is better than the menu-based approach
>(whilst I *do* agree that for _majority_ of tasks the menu approach is
>better).
>
>I'm not sure how to support the functionality properly with zoomable icons;
>I just wanted to inform you that there is *some* (perhaps negligible) demand
>for being able to distinguish clicking into different part of the icon.

I can see applications for that sort of stuff, or perhaps even for dragging things onto different parts of the icon; returning the mouse coordinates in icon coordinates would do it.

However, I'd say that the average user (or even myself ;-)) would be hard-pressed to click or drag to a certain spot on a variable-sized thingie in the dock, which can zoom and slide madly about when the mouse approaches... just dragging anything _onto_ the icon, and hitting it, is often chancy...


--
Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
http://www.brockerhoff.net/ (updated Sept. 2001)



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