Re: why no autosave for NSSplitView?

FROM : Daniel Morrow
DATE : Mon Nov 01 18:03:06 2004

Yeah, I considered this,

but Apple uses split-views in Mail, Xcode, Finder and Address Book just
to name a few. So, I would think that all these apps would benefit from
such a feature, and if Apple isn't providing an API for it's own apps,
then there must a logical reason to not doing it, right?

-Dan.

On Nov 1, 2004, at 11:58 AM, j o a r wrote:

> I think that the reason is simply that they don't get many enhancement
> requests for NSSplitView.
>
> I really think that they should give it a good upgrade sooner rather
> than later - but that will not happen unless some of us start to file
> enhancement / feature requests!
>
> j o a r
>
> On 2004-11-01, at 17.49, Daniel Morrow wrote:
>

>> I was just wondering if someone could provide a technical explanation
>> about why there is no autosave available for NSSplitViews. I found
>> solutions to this problem that go back as far as 2001, so I assume
>> that the developers at Apple know about this, and are intentionally
>> not doing anything about it for a reason. But I can't figure out what
>> that reason might be, and I'm wondering if someone could shed some
>> light on this.

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