Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- Subject: Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:22:39 +0200
Rob,
>
>>>>> Rob Rix (RR) wrote at Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:06:32 -0400:
RR> >Window and document are two quite different things. Agreed that in
RR> >simplest
RR> >applications like TextEdit they kind of blend together, but that's
RR> >rather a
RR> >coincidence.
RR>
RR> Yes...it's been awhile since I read the current HIG, but for my own use,
RR> I' d probably put it into the File menu if it really was a file being
RR> closed, and the Window menu otherwise.
Nope, it's still not that easy. Don't please forgot that those strange
things which were named "dialogues" and were not windows in OS9 _ARE_ windows
now. Therefore, even with a very simple application like TextEdit, the
"Close Window" command is quite reasonable, and DOES NOT belong to the File
menu, since it _just closes the first responder window_, whatever it is (like
Find Panel, or Spell Panel). *IF* the window closed _happens to_ contain a
document, well, it closes document as well.
The important difference here is that the action we performed was still
_closing window_ (which resulted in closing some document too).
With TextEdit, there is no need for Close Document command (which would
belong to File all right). It is needed for more complicated applications,
which could represent a document by more windows. With this, quite different
command, the opposite would apply: we would _close document_ (which would
result in closing some window(s) too).
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