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: Phillip Hutchings <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:26:57 +1300
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On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 09:15 Pacific/Auckland, Jens Bauer wrote:
Hi Phillip,
On Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at 21:21 Europe/Copenhagen, Phillip Hutchings
wrote:
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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 see your point, and it does catch me sometimes, but I tend to go for
the glowing button for 'OK'. I guess Apple think it's better to keep
the default in the same place and move the labels.
Dropstuff is meant to be confusing, it's to make you register :) That
would be a good incentive - constantly swap dialog buttons...
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.
Just checked the docs, you need to create your own panel and use that
as a sheet to get it to work.
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Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/
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