Re: Selection (was Re: Better Open Dictionary)
Re: Selection (was Re: Better Open Dictionary)
- Subject: Re: Selection (was Re: Better Open Dictionary)
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:37:10 +0000
John Delacour wrote:
>Like I said, Script Editor's selection-object class is not part of
the Standard Suite.
Then all I can say is that it has no place anywhere else and that
they've got it wrong!
SE's selection-object class isn't listed in the Standard Suite
because it isn't from the Standard Suite. It's something the SE
engineers have implemented for themselves, on account of the Standard
Suite not providing a selection-object class of its own. Having to
kludge around a system-level shortcoming at the application level
like this is hardly the ideal solution, but until the Cocoa
frameworks catch up then it's either that or nothing at all.
There's nothing in the rules that say all applications MUST implement
a particular class in a particular way. Good designers do it because
interface consistency across applications is (was?) the Macintosh
Way. Thus every Mac application standardised on Cmd-X|C|V shortcuts
for for cut-n-paste right from Day One - and users were happy - while
Windows spent years honking off folk who couldn't remember if a
particular app used F1 or ctrl-C or some other weird combo.
Consistent UI is nice to have, but it's not the end of the world if
you don't. (As MS have amply demonstrated.)
It's depressing that cross-application UI consistency has gone to the
wall in recent years. But as long as the non-standard behaviour is
documented, it's hardly a deal-stopper that REAL bugs are. And
there's _plenty_ of those you could be railing at. I appreciate
you're trying to make constructive criticism here, but there's only
so much useful comment that be made about it. IMHO, time to file an
enhancement request on making the selection-object's behaviour
consistent with past practice, and move onto more serious problems.
Regards,
has
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