On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, P Teeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What appealed to me about the NSButton was it maturity as an interface item > and I wanted to take advantage of that. This is a double-edged sword: I for one would find it unsettling if a standard-looking button started behaving differently. If I saw a button stay 'pressed' I'd assume I'd be seeing the spinning beach ball in a few seconds' time. I much prefer the idea of disabling the button after it's pressed. This is becoming fairly standard UI in the HTML/AJAX world (so that servers don't get confused by the same request twice), though I don't much like them for that (because how do I try to repeat the transaction if the network fails?) > I thought making another variant of it was cleaner. Another visual variant would be much cleaner -- preferably one which mimics the physical characteristics of a real latch. E.g. a horizontal switch like that of Time Machine, with a little catch that falls into the gap once the switch is thrown to prevent it being moved back. You might also want to ask about this on mac-gui-dev (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mac-gui-dev/). People there take a great deal of trouble over user interfaces! Hamish _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
