Re: Class NSComboBox
Re: Class NSComboBox
- Subject: Re: Class NSComboBox
- From: Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:58:15 +0100
On Mar 15, 2012, at 17:35, koko wrote:
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> Because it's far faster to scan than scroll. Because if more are displayed, if you do have to scroll you're more likely to scroll until the one you want is visible and stop before it scrolls out of view, so you don't have to scroll back the other way. Because if you use match-while-typing you have to type less before you can select your class.
>
So why does that say "20"?
There are also multiple reasons not to have very long lists. You do know whey there's a numberOfVisibleItems property, do you? So you get a compromise. The compromise is 5, which is the default value. Why is that not OK? Really, "lame" is not a reason. Neither is "because I think so," which is what you imply.
Why do I have to explain this?
Christiaan
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>> Why?
>>
>> You don't seem to understand. I understand why you would want a combobox or something, that's obvious, but you already have that.
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>> The question is: why would you want or expect 20 rather than 5? Why is 5 lame (such a word already disqualifies your question as being not serious)? Why not 500? You see, you give absolutely NO context. And this is highly context sensitive. I get a variable number that is a relevant selection (namely all *subclasses* it knows about), and this number can easily exceed 5 or even 20 IME. You see, giving all *valid* classes is much more productive than giving just a long long list of items.
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>> Christiaan
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>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 16:22, koko wrote:
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>>> Why? … Productivity my man, productivity.
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>>> -koko
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>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 2:22, koko wrote:
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>>>>> In the Custom Class section of the Identity Inspector the NSComboBox labeled Class should display, say 20 entries, not the lame 5 it currently does.
>>>>>
>>>>> -koko
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>>
>>>> Christiaan
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>>>>
>>>
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