Re: subclass NSAlert or what?
Re: subclass NSAlert or what?
- Subject: Re: subclass NSAlert or what?
- From: Johnny Deadman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:08:15 -0400
Thanks, Günther, I appreciate that. It really helps.
Yes, I already do what you suggest, selecting among various
pasteboard types. This dialog crops up when the user attempts to
paste styled text from another document created with the same app. I
use my own pasteboard type, which typically contains a lot of
information not in the RTF pastboard type (which paragraph is dialog,
which paragraph is action etc). If there are styles in the 'from'
document that don't exist in the 'to' document, the app has to make a
decision about what to do. It is not acceptable to use the RTF
pasteboard type instead because it will throw away far too much
information (the user might be pasting an entire screenplay which
already has all the paragraphs labelled properly).
One alternative to this would be to create a duplicate of the missing
style in the target document. In some ways this might be preferable.
Another alternative would be to replace the missing style with a
default style, but I do not like this because the user would then
have to go through the document and fix the missing style manually.
The annoying thing is that this is quite a rare case, but not so
vanishingly rare that I feel happy ignoring it.
Anyway, thanks again.
On 12-Apr-05, at 3:06 AM, Günther Blaschek wrote:
However, you might also want to reconsider the user interface
altogether. The pasteboard will contain multiple flavors. When the
user selects "Paste", you could simply use the best variant
available. To give the user more control about what to paste, you
could add a separate "Paste As" menu with an attached submenu that
lists the currently available formats.
From a user's perspective, I would prefer this technique, as it
avoids modal states altogether.
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