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Re: equivalent of the "X Selection" for cocoa apps?
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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.
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