Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
- Subject: Re: Clicking Dock Icon creates a new window
- From: Bruce Truax <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:19:10 -0500
On 3/13/04 1:02 PM, "Charles Srstka" <email@hidden>
eloquently wrote:
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I know this probably isn't what you want to hear, but doing so would
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violate this section of the Apple UI guidelines:
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http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/
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OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGHowEnvAffects/chapter_7_section_3.html#//apple_ref/
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doc/uid/20000957-CH294-CHDICFGC
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"Clicking an application icon in the Dock should always result in a
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window becoming active:
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If the application is not open, a new window should open. In a
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document-based application, the application should open a new, untitled
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window. In an application that is not document-based, the application
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window opens.
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When a user clicks an open applications icon in the Dock, the
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application becomes active and all open unminimized windows are brought
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to the front; minimized document windows remain in the Dock. If there
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are no unminimized windows when the user clicks the Dock icon, the last
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minimized window should be expanded and made active. If no windows are
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open, the application should open a new windowa new untitled window
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for document-based applications, otherwise the main application
This behavior is exactly what I would like to happen except that that is
actually happening is that a new untitled window opens even if there is
already a document window open. Other document based applications I have
created do not do this and I cannot figure out why this one behaves
incorrectly.
Bruce
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