Re: Sheet interferes with close widget and app quit
Re: Sheet interferes with close widget and app quit
- Subject: Re: Sheet interferes with close widget and app quit
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:43:30 -0400
on 8/21/01 10:34 AM, R. Tony Goold at email@hidden wrote:
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>> A user has to deal with a modal dialog before they can quit an app
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>> or close a window, implementing the above strategy would be a violation
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>> of UI consistency. Don't pollute the metaphor.
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> I beg to differ. The primary example of this technique in Mac OS X is
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> closing a window that has unsaved changes. An alert sheet is presented,
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> and
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> when you click the Don't Save button both the sheet and the window close
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> simultaneously.
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I'm not sure how that contradicts what he says. You start to close a
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window, but a sheet pops out so you have to deal with the sheet before
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your action can be resumed. Clicking Don't Save dismisses the sheet, then
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your suspended action (closing the window) is resumed.
That's all I proposed in the first place, but I understood him to have
replied that my approach was a "violation of UI consistency." Perhaps he
meant to reply to the original poster, whose approach may have been broader
than mine. Apparently we are in agreement, after all.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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