On Jul 6, 2015, at 16:16 , Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Finder does something similar when renaming files and folders. The first > click selects the file or folder. The next click selects the name of the file > or folder ready for replacement. The third click will place the insertion > point somewhere within the text field ready for fine grain editing of the > file or folder name.
In general, if the text field doesn’t look editable until you “click to edit” (click #2 in the above, because I assume you don’t have click #1 at all in your app), then I think it’s fine for it to do a select all (or select something-predefined-like-Finder-does), because there’s no expectation from the appearance of the text that you might start with a drag-to-select-and-begin editing. In your case, where the “click to edit” behavior is already expected by users, I don’t see a big problem in what you’re proposing, though I think the *classy* solution would be to have a subtle difference in appearance in the text field when a click is needed to start editing, even if it flies under the perceptual radar of experienced users. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
