Re: Hide a window on close?
Re: Hide a window on close?
- Subject: Re: Hide a window on close?
- From: Craig Hunter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:31:11 -0400
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> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:35:10 -0400
> From: "Craig Dooley" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Re: Hide a window on close?
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> I also wanted to have the window come back when the dock icon is
> clicked again, which didn't happen if i used orderOut: I could have
> made the app quit when the window is closed (there's only ever one
> window), but I tend to use apps like mail and newsfire and close them
> when I don't plan on coming back immediately. I like that they come
> right back to where I was previously when I re-activate them.
This brings up an interesting point -- the notion of "close" and "hide" seem
to get mixed up a lot by users. One of my apps (a CAD/geometry tool) has
dozens of windows, each can be closed or open to customize the interface the
way the user wants (so I really want them to close and stay closed). I have
found that a lot of users complain about this; in attempting to hide the app
(presumably to clear up the screen) they close the open window(s) and then
go to the extra steps to reopen the same window(s) when they come back to
the app later on. My standard response is, no, you should not be closing
the window(s), you should be hiding the app -- either by choosing hide from
the app men or dock menu (or any number of other ways). Of course the
benefit to hiding the app is that it comes back just the way the user left
it.
As is the case here, users often cite Mail.app's behavior, which of course
has that central window that flaunts the close/hide behavior (and reasonably
so in that case, since the central window is key).
Does anyone else notice this issue with OS X apps and users? I am wondering
where this mixup comes from -- is it a Windows thing? We could hide apps in
OS 9, so it shouldn't be a new thing to Mac users.... Clearly the red
widget with the X means close, but it seems like a lot of users want it to
mean hide.
Craig
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Dr. Craig Hunter
NASA Langley Research Center
Configuration Aerodynamics Branch
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