Re: equivalent of the "X Selection" for cocoa apps?
Re: equivalent of the "X Selection" for cocoa apps?
- Subject: Re: equivalent of the "X Selection" for cocoa apps?
- From: billmonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:53:31 -0600
instead of having to explicitly press ctrl-C (in Linux),
you simply can make a selection and then use ctrl-V or the middle mouse
button to paste--shortcutting the explicit ctrl-C keystroke for the
copy.
Sibelius has this feature. You select a passage of music, scroll to
another location in the document, and Option-click to duplicate the
selected data to the new location.
I hope you're planning to write this as a system-wide extension for
users that want this feature on their system, and not as a feature in
your app. Because Mac users are used to their clipboard not being
replaced until they copy something new into it.
In Sibelius, the clipboard isn't involved. The selection is simply
duplicated to the option-click point. The selection is left unchanged
afterwards and can be duplicate to other locations by further
option-clicks. This turns out to be extremely convenient in scoring.
I know it sounds rather odd. Certainly it's not in Apple's HIG, and
logically there's no difference from a regular copy/paste - the same
thing is accomplished either way. But after you've used it, it just
feels right. Maybe because there are fewer physical/cognitive steps:
(double-click the source, option-click the destination) versus (double
click the source, Cmd-C, click the destination, Cmd-V).
(AFAIK Sibelius is a Carbon app though.)
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