Re: NSBrowser: so very, very broken

FROM : Clark Mueller
DATE : Sun Jan 26 04:19:49 2003

True... the reason I mention it though is because it's Finder behavior.
This one might be a personal preference thing; I don't like the way
that NSBrowser's selection works, and that's one example.

Clark

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:02  PM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:

>
> On Saturday, Jan 25, 2003, at 13:30 America/New_York, Clark Mueller
> wrote:

>>  Even something as simple as the user being able to create an empty
>> selection just by clicking in the empty spot at the bottom of a
>> column that's not quite full, rather than having to individually
>> deselect each selected item, is a very trivial thing that isn't there
>> by default in an NSBrowser.

>
> They don't have to do that; selecting one item should deselect all the
> others. Then the
> user can command-click or option-click or whatever to deselect the one
> selected
> item.
>
> I'm not sure clicking-in-the-empty-spot-deselects-all is such a good
> idea: if
> it's an accidental click, the user could get pretty annoyed, having to
> go
> back and reselect a bunch of items.
> --
> Jonathan W. Hendry        NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Cocoa
> <email_removed>        programmer in Connecticut

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