Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- Subject: Re: Aqua Interface Guidelines & Close Window location ?
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 02:45:10 -0700
One thing is for sure, utility windows should NOT be able to be
closed with command W. it never happened in Mac OS Classic, it
shouldn't happen now. You have no idea how many time I was in IB and
hit command w, only to close the show info utility window.
Ack, at 9/20/01, Ondra Cada said:
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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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
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