Hi folks, I was kinda surprised that not even an hour after the announcement on Cocoa-Dev we already have ten new members here. Great to see that. If you want...
Here's a starter topic for you: I just noticed that the HI guidelines now say that window proxy icons are added *after* a document has been saved. It used to...
... Hello. I'm MarkD, principal author of Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming. I've been doing Mac programming since 1984, and unix programming since 1990....
... Hello. I'm David Catmull. I make shareware and icons and other stuff. For my day job, I work at Final Draft - http://finaldraft.com/ -- David Catmull ...
... AFAIK that was a change introduced with the "Apple Human Interface Guidelines" (as opposed to the "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines"). As such, it was...
Hello GUI people, I'm Brett O'Donnell, Industrial Engineering and Psychology student. I also own a consulting firm, Springboard. I am getting started learning...
Hi everybody - my name is Daniel Jalkut. I was an engineer at Apple for several years before leaving to go back to school. In the process of doing that I...
... David, you're right, seen from that point of view, I guess it's not trivia any longer :-) -- Cheers, M. Uli Kusterer ... "The Witnesses of TeachText are...
... Hi, I'm Duncan Wilcox, I started on a vic20 and from the early 90s I tried to stay on alternate OSs, first on OS/2, then BeOS, and lately OS X. While I...
... Nice! Well I'm Massimiliano Origgi and I have been messing with computers for a long time starting with the mythic(!) C=64. I've been mainly interested in...
Massimiliano Origgi
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May 9, 2005 12:17 pm
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... My name is Narcoleptic Electron. I wake up lost millions of times each day in a circuit maze that appears to weave through this email list. So here I am....
Narcoleptic Electron
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May 9, 2005 4:29 pm
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Hi everyone, My name is Mike Zornek. I'm 25 years old living just south of Philadelphia, PA. I've been using Macs since about 1998. When OS X was announced I...
Hey yall, I'm Ben, and I currently hang my hat in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada... I intend to mostly lurk on this list, but since introductions seem to be in vogue,...
Hi all, Guess I'll add my hello here too. I'm Fraser, live and work on the west coast of Scotland. By day, I sysadmin Linux servers for analysing data from...
Hi there! I'm David, from sunny London, UK (Islington, if anyone cares!). I imagine I will probably end up mostly lurking too, due to habitual lazyness, but...
David Emery
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May 11, 2005 9:08 pm
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Hi all A belated intro - sorry, but a uni assignment has been taking all my time. I've played with computers off and on since 1981, but Mac OS X has inspired...
All -- A very small question... If you're telling users to enter a network path, it's a good idea to accept both slashes and backslashes: //computer/share or ...
Mike Morton
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May 13, 2005 10:33 pm
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... I would posit that without any protocol identifier (e.g. smb:, afp:, etc.) in the front, a Mac user wouldn't expect either of the above. If you want to do...
... If you're talking about Windows file sharing, my impression is that backslashes are the standard. Of course, being primarily a Mac person, I get this...
... In general, you shouldn't require users to enter *any* paths. Offer a directory browser of some kind. Why? Because in my opinion one of the most important...
All -- Thanks for the responses! Some followup: ... Is there any Apple doc declaring that the above format is the proper one? ... You can imagine that such a...
Mike Morton
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May 14, 2005 1:59 pm
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I'm curious as to everyone's thoughts on the practice of displaying a configuration sheet first thing when creating a new document, like as is done in Apple's...
... I'm not very fond of the idea. For one thing, Pages often has a significant pause (especially if the app just opened) between showing the document window...
... You do know that there is a preference which allows you to turn this off and set it to always open with your preferred template. ... This behavior makes...
... No, but there's the following: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crhertel-smb-url-08.txt ... Well, good GUI takes time :-) ... Of course, but this...
... No, I didn't. Thanks for the tip :) ... Oh I understand the reasoning behind the behavior. At the time I was somewhat distracted by something else, and if...
... That sounds horrible. Definitely an argument against the sheet in my eye. Sheets are nice for modifying existing objects, but seeing the document window...
... A template named "blank" is a programmer-ism. User's don't think of Null-objects, only a template that actually contains something merits that name in...
