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Re: cascading sheets and HIG
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Re: cascading sheets and HIG


  • Subject: Re: cascading sheets and HIG
  • From: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:41:13 -0700

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:

Just my $.02, but I *hate* waiting for sheets to unfurl, and any program that
subjected me to a *series* of sheets would have to be *really* important
to prevent me from trashing it.

There's gotta be a less user-hostile way of doing it.

I agree, it's by no means the best solution. However, it's much better than either of the other options:

a) having the app go all buggy because I put up more than one sheet at once.

b) using alert panels instead. I dislike some things about sheets, but I really appreciate how they are tied to their specific window and don't litter the screen.

In my case the sheet messages are being triggered by NSDistributedNotification. I'm still thinking about the best way to bundle those up to present to the user in a more friendly way.

Do most users hate sheets as much as you?

As CPUs get faster, will sheets get less annoying and faster to unfurl, or are they sprite-like and always take ~ 1/x seconds to unfurl? I was just now watching a sheet unfurl, objectively, and it's pretty dang fast on my older G4 without QuartzExtreme.

Alex Rice <email@hidden> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com

what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco
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