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Re: [NSDrawer] Why isn't my default button blue+pulsing?
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Re: [NSDrawer] Why isn't my default button blue+pulsing?


  • Subject: Re: [NSDrawer] Why isn't my default button blue+pulsing?
  • From: Frédéric BLANC <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:58:16 +0200

   Hi Uli,


>   I vote in support of Cameron.
Okay, okay… I've understood :) !

> It sounds like a GUI faux pas to me to have a
> default button that can be hidden away.
I even haven't thought about this before! You're plain right: it seems
rather odd to be able to hide such a control. You've totally convinced
me now; this is not a common think to provide. (Note: Didn't
Calculator on Panther provide such a thing? I can't verify, but I do
remember it has buttons in a drawer… maybe not default, though.)

> The default button is the
> main button in a panel, a very important action.
> A drawer, on the other hand, is for stuff that is
> auxiliary, that a user doesn't have to know
> about. The two seem to contradict each other.
Cameron & Uli, I can't agree more… now ;) !

(snip)

>   If you find yourself in a GUI-wise dubious and
> potentially contradicting scenario *and* fighting
> the frameworks, you are probably doing a mistake
> in your GUI.
Here, I thought of a 3rd possibility: my inexperience with AppKit :( !
(And sometimes, I imagine a 4th one: framework-based bugs ;) ! But
that's definitely not the case here…)

> Or you have a very exotic and unique
> situation. But since statistics are by definition
> in favor of non-exotic situations, I hope you
> won't feel offended if I assume that's not the
> case here.
Don't worry ;) !

>   BTW -- If you're interested in such things,
> there's the Mac-GUI-Dev mailing list (…)
Actually, I joined it when you announced it here recently; but, I have
to confess I've unsubscribed since then… b/c it seems to be a little
too abstract for me. Perhaps I'll change my mind since there's still
some little things I could have learnt there ;) !

Bye Uli, and thanks for the time you took to clear some things here :) !


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