On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Chris Williams <ch...@clwill.com> wrote:
> blah blah... Far better than a spinning beach ball. If written well an application can launch quickly and then get into UI that informs the user that a lengthy process is taking place while ideally letting them do other tasks that aren't blocked by the length task. A splash screen is generally a bad way to do that on Mac OS X, as is causing the beach ball to show. Review... (can't find the blob of text that I recall explicitly talking about splash screens) http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGHIDesign/XHIGHIDesign.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000353-TPXREF106 http://developer.apple.com/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGHIDesign/XHIGHIDesign.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000353-TPXREF110 -Shawn _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
