On 1 May 2006, at 00:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All I wrote was, in response to the assertion that Save As dialogs
should have a pop-up menu to select what file types you want to
see: "That's not the case on the Mac (at least, in my
experience)". I stand by that. Most of the apps I frequently use
do not have these:
Firefox: no.
Preview: no.
REALbasic: no.
Eudora: no.
TextEdit: no. (It does have an Encoding pop-up, but that's quite
different.)
iChat: no.
Terminal: no.
GraphicConverter: yes.
OK, so GraphicConverter has a filter pop-up. It has a lot of other
non-standard UI, too (much of it with good reason). But my point
remains: in my experience, most Mac apps don't have these, while
most or all Windows apps do.
Well that is an interesting small set of apps! <g>
I will agree that a pop-up is fairly standard on Windows, less so on
the Mac, but over the years more and more Mac apps have had this,
including some Apple apps, so there is obviously a way of doing it,
but it appears this is not available in Rb.
On my Mac, the majority of paid for apps (rather than included
freebies) have such a pop-up. And most of the apps that don't are
because they are pretty specialised and don't really need to open
files at all eg Virtual PC, but of course Open is one of the
"required" commands. Whether or not the dialog "should" have such a
pop-up according to Apple is neither here nor there - many people
obviously deem it necessary and implement it.
But the question is how is this implemented. Some clearly rely on
MacType, others on extensions, perhaps some use a combination.
Perhaps the answer is that this is a cocoa feature? <bg>
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
http://tonyspencer.blogspot.com/
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