Re: Two questions
Re: Two questions
- Subject: Re: Two questions
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 13:25:16 -0500
At 1:49 PM -0400 5/27/2001, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
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on 5/27/01 9:31 AM, Mal Paine at email@hidden wrote:
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>>> For the Cocoa apps that I've written, I noticed that when clicking on
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>>> the window when it's in the background, if I click on a control, not
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>>> only is the window brought to the front, but the control is activated.
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>> All cocoa apps behave like this.
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> And it's how ALL apps are supposed to behave under the Aqua Human Interface
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> guidelines....
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Is that still true? I hope so, because I think it is much more useful than
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the old Mac model. But Mac OS X 10.0 seems to have abandoned it for most
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apps, even the Finder.
Gosh, and I was about to hope that it wasn't true.
My experience is that when I want another window, my locus of
attention is on wanting the window, and am not yet focusing on
hitting (or missing) a particular place on the window. I've been
seriously inconvenienced by thinking I was activating a window, and
finding I was also inadvertently changing at least the state of its
display. Hitting the scroll bar while activating a window is very,
very easy.
I'm willing to be persuaded (by an informal user study) that this is
just my problem, caused by my being accustomed to the pre-X way of
doing things. However, I find I've accommodated pretty quickly to
things like the Aqua window controls and the Dock.
-- F