Re: re Hiding controls and another question
Re: re Hiding controls and another question
- Subject: Re: re Hiding controls and another question
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:45:50 -0600
- Organization: EMB & Assocites Inc.
One reason that Cocoa does not provide a simple hide control functionality
may be that controls should not be hidden. There have been long arguments
in this forum and others. Search if you are interested.
Transparent buttons are used to place button behavior over arbitrary
graphics. They are not made transparent to hide them. Color wells have no
meaning overlaying arbitrary graphics. Therefore it does not make sense to
have transparent color wells.
I am absolutely flabbergasted that so many people seem to want to hide
controls rather than disable them. Where does the fetish for misleading
users originate ? How and why is hiding a control ever preferable to
disabling the control. (Tab views, inspector panels, pop-up-buttons, and
drawers are all techniques for decluttering my hiding some user interface
elements, but their existence and behavior is expected by users.)
Disappearing buttons and text fields and color wells, and even progress bars
is not expected. See all of the preceding arguments.
Please, everyone: do a minimal search of the net and the list archives
before asking questions like this. This exact question comes up once or
twice a month it seems. It came up just last week. We can agree to
disagree, but please let us not argue about it over and over and over...
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Pattenden" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 12:10 AM
Subject: re Hiding controls and another question
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I'd have to say I'm shocked, since Cocoa is billed as the cats meow
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in rapid programming, this lack of a simple interface to a common
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task seems unbelievably lame... in Carbon its as simple as calling
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HideControl..
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guess you really can't have it all.. I feel like I've been "steved"...
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While I'm asking is there any way to make a picture stretch to fit in
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a button?? (also simple in Carbon)
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(I also searched for and answer to this in the archives and found
nothing..)
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back to the salt mines...
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JP
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