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Re: Interface Builder annoyances (was: NSTextField annoyances)
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Re: Interface Builder annoyances (was: NSTextField annoyances)


  • Subject: Re: Interface Builder annoyances (was: NSTextField annoyances)
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:23:40 -0500
  • Mail-followup-to: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>, email@hidden

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:47:19PM -0700, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
> The reason this is not obvious is that it's so badly worded in Interface
> Builder. It should say something more like "On Enter key only". The phrase
> "Only on enter" sounds like the action message will be sent when the user
> first clicks in the field (i.e. enters it)! Or, even better, why can't
> Interface Builder also give the name of the method the checkbox is
> equivalent to (i.e. here, setSendsActionOnEndEditing)?

Moreover, the key is labeled 'return', not 'enter', on all current
Apple keyboards. The enter key on the Mac is the key on the numeric
keypad.

Some tooltips/help tags in IB would certainly help with issues like this...

--
=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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