Re: Quit menu item undimming itself?!
Re: Quit menu item undimming itself?!
- Subject: Re: Quit menu item undimming itself?!
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 13:57:16 -0700
On May 9, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Christopher Hickman wrote:
Because we're in the middle of an operation, and quitting would leave
files in an incomplete, corrupted state. There is a dialog up with a
cancel button; the user can click Cancel to stop the operation in a
graceful way.
Questioning my design isn't really an appropriate response here.
It is if your design is bad human interface and would make your
application
anti-Mac. The Quit menu item should always be available, and
should display
a friendly error that explains why quitting now would be bad and
provide an
option to cancel the operation gracefully and quit or to cancel the
quit.
The app I'm working on is the moral equivalent of Apple's Software
Update. It basically works the same way Software Update does—quitting
is disallowed in the middle of an operation; instead there is a sheet
with a Cancel button that the user can click.
The Apple Installer also behaves the same as my app—it has a dialog
with a Cancel button, and the Quit menu item does not function. (IIRC
it actually pops up a little message telling you to click Cancel if
you want to stop the installation.)
If you're going to call the design un-Mac-like, I think you need to
back that up. Is there an Apple program which cancels a dialog in
response to cmd-Q? I haven't found one yet.
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