Re: Carbon IB items missing in Cocoa
Re: Carbon IB items missing in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Carbon IB items missing in Cocoa
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:40:54 +0200
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> Chasing Arrows (little round spinning doodad that you see while
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> checking for mail, or loading a page in OmniWeb)
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OmniWeb is Cocoa - look at the chasing arrows view in OmniAppKit.
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> Triangle (for showing/hiding more detailed information, a recommended
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> practice for well-developed UIs)
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Nope, not available (except inside a NSOutlineView).
In addition, the practice of hiding some interface is a controversial one,
especially among those who worked with NeXT...In the Mac UI, the practice is
common, and Apple does it themselves in the open/save box and many other
places.
Some say that the user should always see all options. Others say that
complexity should be hidden and allow for the application to grow while the
user learns it gradually. Some of those who favour the full disclosure
principle even thing that tab views violate it.
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> I would find these useful to have. Anyone know if these are available
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> to Cocoa in some fashion that I am not yet familiar with?
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Apple is working on HI feature parity for Cocoa and Carbon. A few
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months ago on macosx-dev I enumerated all the missing features of both
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environments. If you check out the WWDC session descriptions you'll
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see that toolbars, combo boxes, drawers and increased accessibility
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are coming to Carbon, and Cocoa is getting the saem treatment I assume.
Hihi...It's gonna be interesting to see if they can implement toolbars as
neatly as in cocoa, both on the user end and the developer end...I very much
doubt it.
/ David Remahl
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