Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????
Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????
- Subject: Re: Docklet(ing) API & 10.1: Where ????
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:23:47 -0300
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From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:48:31 +0100
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For _some_ applications I would like to be able to interpret keyDown:'s in
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the dock icon as well.
Hopefully you meant mouseDown:'s... :-)
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For example, one of my OpenStep applications used
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mini-buttons inside its icon to perform its functionality (switching
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keyboards). I feel for _some_ tasks it is better than the menu-based approach
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(whilst I *do* agree that for _majority_ of tasks the menu approach is
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better).
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I'm not sure how to support the functionality properly with zoomable icons;
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I just wanted to inform you that there is *some* (perhaps negligible) demand
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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...
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Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
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