Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things
Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things
- Subject: Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things
- From: Murat Konar <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:24:43 -0800
On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:45 PM, John Stiles wrote:
I wonder if I'm the only one here who continually stops Xcode from
cleaning or building by clicking the build (or clean) button,
seeing no response from the GUI, clicking again, and then the Xcode
GUI springs to life, the button turns into a "stop sign," and then
the second click goes through and the process is immediately
stopped. Rrrr.
Yep.
Another failure mode: the first thing a new Mac user is taught is
how to double-click things in the Finder. So drunk with power the new
user is that she starts double-clicking EVERYTHING, including buttons
whose meaning toggles between two states.
I consulted on an app many years ago that had a Speaker icon that
when clicked, started playback of a recording embedded in a document.
Clicking it again stopped the playback. During field testing, there
were a bunch of reports that the sound playback wasn't working. Of
course, engineering could never reproduce the problem. But user
observation revealed that users were double-clicking the speaker
icon. The first click started playback, but the second stopped it.
Regarding the OP's question, I would prefer distinct "Start" and
"Stop" buttons, but if overly space constrained, at least filter out
double-clicks to prevent newbies from reporting bugs. And
_murat
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