On Oct 29, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
>> However, this is the wrong solution. A button that doesn’t click through
>> should *look* different when the app is in the background (and shouldn’t
>> do rollover highlighting). So a better solution is to disable buttons you
>> don’t want click-through for, when your app enters the background.
> 
> Huh. I am surprised, but apparently this is precisely what Mail does:
> you can't Trash a message in a background window, even if you
> Command-click it.
> 
>> Dangerous things should be undoable or have a confirming alert anyway.
> 
> Steve writes music software. To pick an example, disabling recording on
> an active input track should NOT require a confirmation alert, even
> though it's a destructive action.

I vote for binding the button's enabled flag to something, then - if the button 
looks active, nothing's covering the window, and I don't notice the color of 
the title stoplight, I'm going to be annoyed if nothing happens when I click.


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