Re: Basic Q: Where is the best place to open a drawer?
Re: Basic Q: Where is the best place to open a drawer?
- Subject: Re: Basic Q: Where is the best place to open a drawer?
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:25:50 +0100
On 19 Jul 2010, at 23:30, Rick Mann wrote:
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 15:28:24, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Laurent Daudelin
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Jul 19, 2010, at 14:24, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> I have a basic NSDocument-based app with no window controllers. When the document's single window opens (as a result of a New or Open command), I want to open a drawer attached to it. But I don't immediately see in NSDocument how to know that the window has just opened. Where might be a good place to put a call to -[NSDrawer open]?
>>>>
>>>> 1. You shouldn't use drawers anymore, as per the HIG.
>>>
>>> I didn't know the drawers were no longer in the favors of the powers that be. Where is this mentioned, out of curiosity and my self edification?
>>
>> At the risk of sounding like a liar, I can't find it in the HIG or in
>> the AppKit release notes. I could have sworn it said to use source
>> lists instead of drawers.
>
> Ah, it does, in the context of navigating hierarchical data. But "for controls that need to be accessed fairly frequently but that don’t need to be visible all the time," drawers apparently are appropriate.
Well seeing as Keynote still has one, I hope so!
(Note I do rather like drawers myself, when used right)_______________________________________________
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