Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Document-Based App v. Windows MDI App
- From: Simon Hickmott <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:22:29 +0100
I don't really agree, as others have suggested, that this is a
hammering a Mac-shaped peg into a Windows-shaped hole problem we're
dealing with here. There are many successful Mac applications which
use a tabbed view to consolidate multiple documents: TextMate comes
immediately to mind — you wouldn't want multiple separate windows on
screen when developing a Rails app, let me tell you. The solution
there is to use an NSDrawer to manage a directory tree, with a tabbed
view for navigating through opened documents. Mail and XCode's
Organizer use a split view, similarly, without the baffling-to-some-
users,-it-seems Drawer. The way I see it, there's no need to resort to
any third party jiggery-pokery to achieve your solution when the Cocoa
tools are already there, all of which comply with Apple's HIG.
On 27 Jul 2009, at 04:46, David Blanton wrote:
I am the only Mac programmer where I work; the rest being
windows. I am constantly challenged to make Mac programs look like
windows to some extent.
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