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: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:44:25 +0100
Hi Bill,
haven't 'seen' you in a while... :-)
At 16:53 Uhr -0600 20.02.2005, billmonk wrote:
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.
I see how, if it's an action you find yourself constantly performing
in your app, it's very handy to have a shortcut. That it doesn't use
the system clipboard is another point in its favor, because it means
it doesn't screw up the user's data. Single-click data loss is not
Mac-like, after all.
Still, it's mainly an obscure power-user feature, and the semantics
of using this between applications instead of inside a single app
aren't really quite clear.
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).
What about drag'n drop? Admittedly the operation of dragging is more
complex than a click, but it'd simply be: double-click the source,
option-drag it to the destination. Moreover, it would be a standard
behavioral pattern that works in all apps.
(AFAIK Sibelius is a Carbon app though.)
Well, rolling your own clipboard and reacting specially to
option-clicks should be manageable in Cocoa as well. Heck, now that
Carbon has a Pasteboard manager (sniff, Scrap Manager is dead...),
you could probably just use your own named pasteboard.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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