Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:15:31 +0200
Hi Phillip,
On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 21:21 Europe/Copenhagen, Phillip Hutchings
wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
The MacOS X system is to have the default on the right. Having the
default not on the right would make the interface look more like
windows in my opinion, and I'm pretty sure it's against the HIG.
I'd like to have someone from Apple confirming this.
If I have a Cancel button and an OK button in the same dialog, but want
the Cancel to be the default button, I would never swap them.
-The user would always expect the OK button to be in the same position
(far right)
A good example on confusion: Aladdin's DropStuff, where the buttons
always change place, so you don't get used to their positions.
Now... It's very disturbing that they move, almost damaging my mind, if
I use it more than twice.
This is my opinion only, not a final confirmation. ;)
I think you would need a custom alert sheet to do this, as all the OS
X APIs are for default on the right format.
On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 06:10 Pacific/Auckland, Stiphane Sudre
wrote:
Problem:
You want a dialog to have a standard alert sheet/dialog to have a OK
and Cancel button.
You want the Cancel button to be the default button.
You don't want to have a Windows-like interface like in iCal when you
delete a Calendar (i.e. the OK button is on the left, the Cancel
button on the right).
Question:
How can you do this with the standard Alert Sheet/Dialog APIs?
Is the only solution to use a custom dialog/sheet?
Love,
Jens
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.