Re: Document based apps & tabbed windows?
Re: Document based apps & tabbed windows?
- Subject: Re: Document based apps & tabbed windows?
- From: "Timothy Reaves" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, April 17, 2007 10:43, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>
--snip--
> Will your users will eventually expect all this stuff? If so,
> regarding the question of whether you should try and over-ride the Cocoa's
> NSDocumentController or re-implement it all yourself, I don't
> know, except that both are going to take longer than expected, and also
> re-implementing it yourself will be more straightforward and result in
> less hair being pulled out. Finally, is that tabbed multi- document
> window "look" really worth all the extra effort?
>
Thanks for the response.
It's not the look I want, so much as the actual functionality. The
tabs aren't what I want; what I want is the ability to have more than
one document open, but not more than one window. This may sound odd
at first, but there are a lot of examples.
For example, when I'm coding, it's not uncommon for me to have two or
three PDF's open with documentation. But I don't want two or three
different Preview.app windows open. I'd like only one Preview
window, with the easy ability to switch between open PDF's. The same
is true for word processing documents, text file, any number of
things.
So the question becomes what's the best way to present this in the
UI. I've got it coded now with tabs, but it's not a NSDocument based
app. As I look at things like undo, saving, etc, I wonder if I
should redo the UI to be document based for these other things.
Something like Vim handles this not with tabs, but with the buffers
or windows menu. All open documents are listed there, and the user
can select to change what is visible.
If I'm overlooking a simpler solution, please clue me in!
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