Re: Disabled button looks like enabled
Re: Disabled button looks like enabled
- Subject: Re: Disabled button looks like enabled
- From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:09:27 -0800
- Thread-topic: Disabled button looks like enabled
Anyone who has been developing Apple/Mac software for more than a few years
can attest that Apple occasionally changes the way that some UI elements
look, in some ways very subtle and in other ways major, and relying upon a
current side-effect of one UI element to look like another element can cause
problems for your users if such a change happens. If you choose to use a
well-defined option, such as that available in BWToolkit, you and your users
would be far less surprised than if a textured button suddenly showed up
with a radial gradient rather than the linear gradient you are expecting
today.
On 01/12/2009 1:27 PM, "Dave DeLong" <email@hidden> wrote:
> While my answer may be "best", now that I know what you're planning to
> do with it, I would still suggest that you use something like
> Brandon's BWToolkit. Your phobia of third-party controls will just
> make life difficult for you. For example: you just spent 10 hours
> trying to replicate a gradient bar, when you could've spent 20 minutes
> downloading Brandon's toolkit, installing it, restarting IB, then
> dragging and dropping in a gradient toolbar yourself, and it would've
> behaved in exactly the same way with no measurable difference in
> performance.
>
> Dave
>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Donnie Lee wrote:
>
>> No, Michael, that was a simple technical question. Dave's answer was
>> the best. He even helped me with focus workarounds. Some people told
>> me something like "Don't do it because I don't like that you do it.
>> Your app will always suck...etc.etc." -- that absolutely don't disturb
>> me, that are their personal problems.
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