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...
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 7, 2005 6:25 pm
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...
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Mark Dalrymple
badgertronic
May 7, 2005 6:25 pm
... 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....
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 7, 2005 6:25 pm
... 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 ...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 7, 2005 6:44 pm
... AFAIK that was a change introduced with the "Apple Human Interface Guidelines" (as opposed to the "Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines"). As such, it was...
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 7, 2005 6:51 pm
... Trivia? I find it somewhat disturbing to think that my software has been out of step with the guidelines since 10.1. -- David Catmull ...
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Todd de Gruyl
todd_degruyl
May 7, 2005 9:45 pm
... Hello everyone, My name is Todd de Gruyl and I have been developing for Unices since the early 1990s and on Mac since 1999. -- Todd de Gruyl ...
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Brett O'Donnell
springboardb...
May 7, 2005 9:45 pm
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...
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Daniel Jalkut
desmondo99
May 7, 2005 9:46 pm
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...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 8, 2005 12:13 am
... 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...
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Duncan Wilcox
duncanwilcox
May 9, 2005 10:08 am
... 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...
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Massimiliano Origgi
origgi@...
May 9, 2005 12:17 pm
... 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...
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Narcoleptic Electron
narcoleptic.electron@...
May 9, 2005 4:29 pm
... 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....
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Mike Zornek
cyberzorn
May 9, 2005 4:30 pm
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...
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Ben Kennedy
benzygoat
May 10, 2005 3:58 pm
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,...
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Fraser Speirs
fraser_speirs
May 10, 2005 4:51 pm
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...
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David Emery
junk@...
May 11, 2005 9:08 pm
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...
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Robert Stainsby
rjsdevau
May 13, 2005 1:21 pm
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...
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Mike Morton
mike.morton@...
May 13, 2005 10:33 pm
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 ...
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Ben Kennedy
benzygoat
May 13, 2005 10:37 pm
... 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...
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 13, 2005 10:49 pm
... 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...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 13, 2005 11:05 pm
... 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...
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Mike Morton
mike.morton@...
May 14, 2005 1:59 pm
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...
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Mike Zornek
cyberzorn
May 14, 2005 3:05 pm
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...
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 14, 2005 3:19 pm
... 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...
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David P Henderson
chaoswerksde...
May 14, 2005 6:01 pm
... 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...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 14, 2005 6:17 pm
... 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...
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David Catmull
dathorc
May 14, 2005 6:24 pm
... 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...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 14, 2005 6:26 pm
... That sounds horrible. Definitely an argument against the sheet in my eye. Sheets are nice for modifying existing objects, but seeing the document window...
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M. Uli Kusterer
witness_of_t...
May 14, 2005 6:26 pm
... 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...
