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Hi, I'm a big fan of various UI concepts that have made their way into portable devices like the Newton and iPhone over the years. I've been working to create...
Chilton Webb
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It crashes very very frequently(like within 20 seconds of me starting it) with a "supertalk" error saying I'm executing a function it's never heard of. But why...
Fjölnir Ásge...
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Sep 2, 2007
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... Just from looking at the screen shots, I'd suggest you check out the Human Interface Guidelines section on recommended margins and metrics. Your dialog...
Uli Kusterer
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... I don't have any of these Macs (at least none that's new enough to run this app ...), but here's a few thoughts, in the order they occur to me: -> The...
Uli Kusterer
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Hi, ... Yep, last minute replacement gone bad. I should have that fixed today. ... Because most of the UI decisions in it don't make sense if it's a window'd...
Chilton Webb
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... I'm not sure which screenshots you're referring to, but the 'search' dialog uses the standard SC requester, and I'm okay with that one. Come to think of...
Chilton Webb
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Hi Uli, ... Excellent points, all of them. I'll address them and get back with you. -Chilton [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Chilton Webb
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Hello everyone, I'm writing an application that will have many plugins, displayed in a table on the left, and each plugin will have a set of users, displayed ...
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Sep 3, 2007
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... Okay, I'll pester Mark about it, if it's standard SuperCard. ... "ask", I supposed? ... Nope, it looked more like an "ask" window. Cheers, -- M. Uli...
Uli Kusterer
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How frequently does the user need to access those users? Because unless he needs fast access to them, giving that table permanent fixture in the window isn't a...
Fjölnir Ásge...
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Sep 3, 2007
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Fjlnir, Good question I don't really know I can't see why a user would have more than one account for each service (How many del.icio.us accounts do...
Alan Smith
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Sep 3, 2007
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Sounds exciting... I miss Watson so much! You have several options here, and as Fjlnir said, it basically comes down to the frequency with which the user...
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... Yes... and this saddens me because drawers were a great idea. They just needed little "handles" (probably an attached tab of some sort) to let the user...
Jon Hull
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... Not to mention the security implications of showing a password in the main window. While I may want an acquaintance to see that blog posting I'm currently...
Uli Kusterer
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... Well, considering how many apps had drawers on three sides of the window, giving them huge ears *and* a hanging tongue, and dumped every control in there...
Uli Kusterer
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... If you have access to the WWDC session videos, there's at least two sessions where John Geleynse talks about usability, and how to lay out a GUI. One of...
Uli Kusterer
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... One option would be to have the user list as a separate, hideable list under the main source list similar to the cover art pane in iTunes, or the...
Jens Ayton
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Sep 3, 2007
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Thanks everyone! I think I have a couple choices: 1) Put a borderless pop-up menu with the users in it to the right of every plugin table item. 2) Put a...
Alan Smith
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Sep 3, 2007
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... Why not at the top of the content area (the window's right)? Then the order makes sense, too, as read from top left to bottom right: First select the...
Florian Dejako
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Sep 3, 2007
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The way that QuickTime Player windows resize has always bothered me. But it's not the resizing part (fixed aspect ratio), it's the relationship between the...
George Warner
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Sep 4, 2007
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... I feel that your "New Window" method feels more intuitively correct when resizing horizontally and vertically. This might be besides the point, but your...
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... While I understand the logic of your change, I prefer the old way. I dont really have a way to estimate how much of that is familiarity, though When...
Jens Ayton
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Sep 4, 2007
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... At first I liked "old" better - probably because I'd gotten used to it in QuickTime - but after some playing around the "new" behavior is more logical....
Rainer Brockerhoff
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Sep 4, 2007
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... Thanks for catching this. Good to know. (But is it a bug?) You can also get this problem with the old window. Drag it till it touches the bottom of the ...
George Warner
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Sep 5, 2007
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... You're probably keeping the cursor near the corner of the window. Try moving it up to the right at a 45 degree angle. On the old window it won't resize; ...
George Warner
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Sep 5, 2007
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... I do prefer the new way; it is more consistent with the resizing of say, images and rectangles in photo- and drawing applications. After all, a window is...
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:55:00 -0700 ... [snip] ... When I tried your app, I first resized the new window, then the old one and it took me a couple of seconds to...
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Sep 5, 2007
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... Oh, it took me less than seconds to like the new behaviour better. What an improvement! Cheers, António ... A merry heart does good like medicine ... ...
Antonio Nunes
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Sep 5, 2007
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Hi George, I never realized how much the fixed aspect ratio resizing was broken until now. You definitely have my vote on the new approach. I think it's a...
Andy Kim
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... I can't see how to reproduce this issue with the old style. How would I, anyway? The old style always takes the minimal dimension of the "invisible" rect...
Uli Kusterer
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