On Mar 26, 2015, at 17:10 , Graham Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > One situation I think would be a suitable candidate for a custom-positioned > alert (or popover) is when a text field fails validation. At the moment, > there's little support for handling this gracefully - I think the default > response is to beep and refuse losing first responder status. It's pretty > poor, in that it doesn't give the user any clue as to what they've done > wrong, and beeping is such a passive-aggressive means of signalling a problem > - "You're a moron, but try and guess why, ha-ha!”.
IIRC the HIG suggests you leave space in your window layout so that you can display an icon and a brief error message in the window itself. OTOH beep-and-refuse is a venerable tradition, and what customer has ever resented being treated like a moron? http://www.cartoonbuddyblog.com/2010/05/hit-any-key-to-continue-english-cartoon.html <http://www.cartoonbuddyblog.com/2010/05/hit-any-key-to-continue-english-cartoon.html> > A nicely positioned alert with a popover-style triangle that indicates the > field in question with some explanation of the problem would be a lot better. Yup. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
