Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
- Subject: Re: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:25:26 +0000
- Thread-topic: Turn off background click behavior on a window?
On Oct 29, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
>> However, this is the wrong solution. A button that doesn’t click through
>> should *look* different when the app is in the background (and shouldn’t
>> do rollover highlighting). So a better solution is to disable buttons you
>> don’t want click-through for, when your app enters the background.
>
> Huh. I am surprised, but apparently this is precisely what Mail does:
> you can't Trash a message in a background window, even if you
> Command-click it.
>
>> Dangerous things should be undoable or have a confirming alert anyway.
>
> Steve writes music software. To pick an example, disabling recording on
> an active input track should NOT require a confirmation alert, even
> though it's a destructive action.
I vote for binding the button's enabled flag to something, then - if the button looks active, nothing's covering the window, and I don't notice the color of the title stoplight, I'm going to be annoyed if nothing happens when I click.
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