Re: Type select in NSTableView, NSBrowser

FROM : Corbin Dunn
DATE : Fri Nov 30 18:56:49 2007

>>

>>> The feature is long awaited and welcome. But it should have been 
>>> mentioned in the App Kit release notes (it isn't), especially 
>>> because it changes the behavior of existing software. Believe it 
>>> or not, I actually have a case where the new behavior is 
>>> undesirable. (It's very easy to turn off, once you know that you 
>>> need to do so.)
>>>

>>
>> Type selection is a huge new feature, and it was tested in many 
>> applications. Exactly what problem are you having with it in your 
>> application? I'm curious why people have to turn it off. I know 
>> some cases where it is required. For instance, Aperture turns it 
>> off, since they interpret standard keystrokes as keyboard 
>> shortcuts. In some ways, that is a disadvantage (I would love to 
>> type select in aperture's project list).

>
> It's because we're redirecting most keystrokes in the window to a 
> search field. It's a dictionary lookup tool; when browsing a 
> dictionary, the obvious thing to want to do by typing is to look up 
> a new word.
> – In one case, the table view that started grabbing some letters is 
> short (only 10 entries) and acts as a source list. It clearly has 
> much less need for keystrokes than the search field.
> – The other case will need a redesign, since there we are capturing 
> the keystrokes to do our own version of type selection, basically 
> for historical reasons. But until the redesign happens, 
> NSTableView's type selection has to be turned off because the two 
> schemes are competing and conflicting.
>


Thanks for the info! This is one of the reasons that we opted to allow 
typeSelection to be turned off/on. We deemed it more useful to make 
the default "on", even for apps not yet linking on Leopard. 
Unfortunately, a few apps, such as yours, are affected by this. Sorry 
about that!

-corbin_______________________________________________

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