Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?
Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?
- Subject: Re: Best practice example for a setup wizard?
- From: PCWiz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:19:14 -0700
If you really want to do a wizard, this might be a good starting point:
http://www.cimgf.com/2008/03/03/core-animation-tutorial-wizard-dialog-with-transitions/
Independent Cocoa Developer, Macatomy Software
http://macatomy.com
On 2010-01-13, at 4:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Ian Piper <email@hidden> wrote:
>> For one of my applications I want to do a check at startup to see whether a profile and password has been set for the current user, and if not to take them through a setup wizard. I'm sure I can mug my way through writing this but it feels like the kind of thing for which there might be an example illustrating best practice. Can anyone point me at some documentation or examples that might help?
>
> I can only think of a few Assistants (they are not called Wizards) in OS X:
>
> 1. Creating an iCal account. This one sticks out because it is so
> unnecessary and buggy that it makes me want to shoot my monitor every
> time it appears.
> 2. The Bluetooth mouse and keyboard detection ones.
> 3. The Certificate Signing Request generator in Keychain Access.app.
> 4. First-launch of Mail.app
>
> Think long and hard before you decide you want to replicate these user
> experiences. Particularly at the first launch.
>
> --Kyle Sluder
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