Re: Should Cocoa Apps have splash screens at all ?
Re: Should Cocoa Apps have splash screens at all ?
- Subject: Re: Should Cocoa Apps have splash screens at all ?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:27:04 +0200
On 28.4.2006, at 17:09, Christian Walther wrote:
I wrote a non-document-based app that loaded so quickly that users
just
would sit and wait, not noticing that the menu bar had changed an
instant
after they double-clicked. So I added a splash with a 1-second delay;
problem solved ;-)
The HIG actually recommend that you open a window when your
application is launched (or comes to the front with no windows
open). I guess that can be a splash window if there's no other
sensible choice of window.
Yeah. And I would like to beg all developers -- if you are
implementing this terrible behaviour, do make it, triple please,
*optional* through a default (would be best if Apple did that with a
global one, but better something than nothing). To conform to HIG,
make it on by default, but do allow for switching off!
Perhaps it's just me, but the convention of creating windows (or
undocking them) each time I just wanted to activate the app so as
"Open" a new file, or check "About" for the version, or change
"Preferences", or *WHATEVER*, is to me one of the most infuriating
Mac OS X UI design flaws (just along with the impossibility to resize
window using any edge and the ever-changing Dock).
It actually forced me to write a hack which kind of cures this
(http://www.ocs.cz/OCSmartHacks/CreationMaximizationWindows/
CreationMaximizationWindows.html), but of course, being a hack, it is
not and cannot ever be entirely reliable...
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Ondra Čada
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