Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
- Subject: Re: Special Characters Edit Menu Item
- From: David Blanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:35:18 -0700
There is no text entry capability in my app so this menu item looks
like I don't know what I am doing.
On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Joseph Crawford wrote:
I do not understand why you would want to remove something that is
put in place by Apple for a reason.
All of my OS X apps have that menu item, if I were to use that menu
item and be used to all apps having it
I would hate your app for not having it.
Is there a real reason you wish to remove it or just because you
dont find a use for it personally?
On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:09 PM, David Blanton wrote:
I searched the archives and found no useful information on how to
remove the Special Characters menu item from the edit menu.
I want to remove this item ... is removing this item a good or
bad practice? If bad, why?
I can't make any appeal to authority, but I can say that I
personally find it a bad choice in most situations.
If your app allows the entry of any relatively unconstrained text
by the user, then the user may have many reasons for wanting to
enter special characters. That menu item is the most direct way
to do that. (By "constrained" I mean, for example, a phone number
or other purely numeric input. Or, I don't know, DNA sequences
where only ATGC are legal.)
Why would you want to frustrate your users?
Regards,
Ken
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