Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
- Subject: Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:55:32 -0700
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:
On Sep 10, 2003, at 4:38 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
Unfortunately for me, I have not been able to come up with a
dramatically better name for the action in my program than "Export".
I have modified it to say "Export Text", but that feels like
upgrading the description of Earth from "harmless" to "mostly
harmless". It doesn't really make it as intuitively obvious as
"compile" does. Of course, naming the action "compile" assumes your
user is familiar with the name of the process for creating an object
file.
Generally, if you're using the NSDocument classes, you'd use a Save
as... that would then have the option of using a writing-only format.
Otherwise, how about "Save to..."
If you use NSExporatbleAs to define your file type, that type is
disabled in the Save As dialog.
In all my research, I could not find a single case of a write-only
format as an option in a Save As dialog. It would violate the rule that
after Save As, you are editing the version you just saved, not the
original.
I think that Save To is not as good as Export because it is too similar
to Save As. Differenter is betterer, semantically speaking. That's not
to say that Export is particularly great. I suppose that the ideal is
"Write out the text from your project in a format that most word
processors can understand", but that's a bit wordy for a menu item.
I'll keep working on it.
Jerry
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