Re: Stopping actions mid stream
Re: Stopping actions mid stream
- Subject: Re: Stopping actions mid stream
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:57:10 +0200
I haven't test but -[NSMenuItem setToolTip:] look fine to do this.
Now, just chek if this methods works even when the item is disabled.
Le 6 juil. 08 à 16:31, Peter Zegelin a écrit :
Some of the commenters suggest a tool tip over the disabled menu
explaining why it is disabled, which sounds reasonable. As a newby
here would this be easy to implement in Cocoa?
On 07/07/2008, at 12:02 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
Wow, I'm really surprised that Joel Spolsky of all people would say
this - and so recently too.
I used to like System 7's Balloon Help approach - grey out the menu
but the help balloon would explain why it wasn't available (at
least in an app that took the trouble to implement this). Sadly, as
with many things since hen, in some ways we've gone backwards.
G.
On 6 Jul 2008, at 11:41 pm, Peter Zegelin wrote:
I agree with you but here is JoelOnSoftware saying virtually the
complete opposite. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.html
. Fortunately most of his commenters disagree.
On 06/07/2008, at 10:21 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
The preferred way to do this is to prevent the user clicking the
button if it's not appropriate by greying it out.
This is far more user-friendly than rebuking a user for having
the audacity to click your button when they shouldn't have, even
though they had no visual cue that they shouldn't. The "permit
then rebuke" form of input validation is the hallmark of bad UI
design. Sadly, it's all too common.
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