Re: IB Woes
Re: IB Woes
- Subject: Re: IB Woes
- From: Glen Simmons <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:42:35 -0500
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 12:39 AM, The Amazing Llama wrote:
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 10:22 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 9:08 PM, David W. Halliday wrote:
This sounds like it's a prime example of what Apple's early User
Interface guidelines warned about: Overly literal adherence to an
interface metaphor (like only allowing a limited number of folders
within folders, since /real/ folders have such limitations). Shame
on Apple.
If you need a huge drawer, you probably should be looking at a
different UI.
Not sure of the Llama's needs, but a window that expands to show
more material is likely more appropriate than a drawer.
I'm implementing an Inspector.
Normally a floating window would be what I'd use, but since this is a
multi-document app, I want each document to have it's own Inspector.
So I put it in a drawer, because it then is visually attached to its
document and can easily be hidden and shown on a per-document basis.
Unfortunately this size limit might force me to go for the floating
window, but a floating inspector window that's bigger than the window
it's inspecting seems odd, as well...
Personally, I'd go with the inspector. Since there can only be one
"key" document window at any time, it should fairly intuitive that the
values in the inspector refer only to that document.
As for the inspector being bigger than the doc - sounds kinda
microsoftish to me, but to each his own. ;-)
Glen
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