Re: Keyboard shortcuts for views in toolbar items
Re: Keyboard shortcuts for views in toolbar items
- Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcuts for views in toolbar items
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:12:32 +0200
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> But a button is a button is a button... If they allow for instances of
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> NSButton to be placed in the tooolbar, why not allow for it to work in
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> the way it does everywhere else?
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While I do suggest that you re-examine your interface with an eye
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towards making everything menu-accessible, I do agree that it should be
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a suggestion, not a mandate. All rules have exceptions, and you should
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at least have the *option* of doing things differently for your
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application, should you decide it's necessary. By all means, file your
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bug report.
This is coherent with what Apple says. No feature of your application should
_only_ be accessible from the toolbar. Quote the HIG (p 131):
"Toolbars are useful for giving users immediate access to the most
frequently used commands. Any item in a toolbar should also be available as
a menu command."
I seem to recall an earlier edition of the HIG saying something to the
effect that toolbar items should be used not for simple tasks such as open
and save, but for "common operations requiring several steps".
/ Regards, David
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