Re: Weird toolbar button behavior in 1.5?
Re: Weird toolbar button behavior in 1.5?
- Subject: Re: Weird toolbar button behavior in 1.5?
- From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:18:03 -0700
The problem with trying to have click-through some of the time is that
then the user is always unsure exactly what items will activate
immediately or not. There are certain things that can be done to
indicate what will cause an action (like enabling/disabling widgets or
mouse rollovers), but it's not foolproof.
The problem with having everything use click through is then you can
accidentally cause actions that are not desired (and sometimes the
visible part of the window is filled with widgets that perform
actions). A simple and evil example is clickthrough into a large text
view, which destroys the current cursor position and selection.
For now, we've taken the position that it's better to be consistent and
not allow clickthrough in Xcode than trying to allow selective
clickthrough.
Scott
On Aug 11, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Bryan Pietrzak wrote:
On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Ali Lalani wrote:
However, i think the behavior should be limited to:
a) Things that could cause data to be lost(i.e delete button)
b) Things that depend on a context in the window such as a selection
in
a tableview(which could be hidden by other windows)
Cickthrough is generally a horrible idea, because it slows you down
big time. You now have to be careful where you click on a background
window, and even if you selectively enable some toolbar items in
background windows, it now means I have to stop and think about those
background items and whether or not they're available.
I hate it. Command-click-through? Fine. But without a modifier? Nope.
Bryan
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