Re: NSLayoutManager vs BBEdit (Was Re: Carbon vs Cocoa arguments)
Re: NSLayoutManager vs BBEdit (Was Re: Carbon vs Cocoa arguments)
- Subject: Re: NSLayoutManager vs BBEdit (Was Re: Carbon vs Cocoa arguments)
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:10:51 -0400
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 03:38 AM, Dennis De Mars wrote:
In the old days, you would hold down the mouse button until the
insertion cursor changed to the arrow cursor, then you could drag.
This was a sensible way to do things that permitted the normal
selection behavior but also allowed drag-and-drop editing and the
visual cue of the cursor changing made it very intuitive and almost
effortless.
Dennis and Rainer have pinpointed the most significant issue here
(nonsensical, insane, errant, or just bad, as you like it): feedback is
essential when the context of an action -- and the resultant
interpretation of that action -- changes. Making the user guess the
context/interpretation is what frustrates her or him. I would have
thought that that was outlined in the HIG somewhere. Maybe a bug report
with a HIG reference would make them pay more attention?
--
Brent Gulanowski email@hidden
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