Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
- Subject: Re: expanding the view area of a window - please help
- From: John Blackburn <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:40:41 -0800
Drawers also fail miserably when the window is zoomed to full-screena
serious drawback for applications where you're viewing something that
requires a lot of screen space. Sure, you can shrink the window
appropriate to provide enough room for the drawer to appear, but the
effect is weird and counter-intuitive.
John Blackburn
On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 10:10 AM, Kurt Revis wrote:
On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
Am I mistaken in thinking that drawers are the "new" Cocoa way to
"expand" a
window and reveal additional controls ? Drawers are easy to implement,
avoid all of the code in other suggestions, and are familiar to users.
Good point. I think there are uses for both approaches. In the two
cases I can think of where disclosure triangles are used by Apple (in
the standard Cocoa open/save sheet and in Sherlock's "More Search
Options" dialog), drawers wouldn't work. In my app, a drawer could
work, and I probably should look into it.
(The only disadvantage I can think of is that a drawer's controls can't
be in the same nextKeyView loop as the controls in the main part of the
window, as far as I know.)
Personally I think drawers are easily overused, and can look weird when
they are large (close to the size of the window itself) or when more
than one drawer is attached to a window at the same time. But that's
more of a gut feeling than a carefully considered UI critique.
--
Kurt Revis
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