Graham Samuel wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:40:06 -0800, Jim Ault <JimAultWins at yahoo.com>
Actually, I use the F10 key... tap it twice and Expose will show/
bring to
the front all the windows in the frontmost app.
Also, tab-switching by ( cmd-tab, cmd-shift-tab ) which will show
the tab
display, then bring you back the the left-most app.
Thanks Jim - that's news to me! Maybe I can add it to the
instructions for my app... but as Ken points out, we have the problem
on OSX too.
There's a completely different approach which may or may not work with
your app specifically, but maybe worth considering:
Unlike Mac Classic, OS X has interleaved windows like Windows and Linux.
In the past we could spread the views into the user's data across
multiple windows, and on Mac at least we knew those windows would stay
together in their own layer. But now the Mac is like the rest of the
world, suggesting new ways of thinking.
Last year at RevCon West I discussed how one of the projects I'm working
on (HyperRESEARCH) is migrating from a multi-window interface to a
single window that uses multiple resizable panels.
This seems consistent with Apple's direction as well: for most of the
Mac's history, video editing apps have had one window for previewing the
video, another for the timeline, and another for clips. In iMovie,
these are all in one window, done in adjustable panes.
We see multi-pane UIs everywhere now, in Outlook (where they've been for
years), Thunderbird, iPhoto, Adobe Lightroom, and more. Seems I come
across a new one every week.
In addition to saying goodbye to window interleaving issues, there are
many other benefits. For starters, you only need to move one control to
resize two panes, while you'd have to adjust two separate windows to get
the same view (and be oh so careful about how you adjust them if you
don't want them overlapping). It also makes a cleaner presentation if
your app supports multiple documents, since each document is in its own
self-contained window. And it makes like easier for users who want your
app to dominate their screen: they just click one Maximize button
rather than tinker around with adjusting window rects.
So this year at RevCon West I'll show the result of our conversion of
the HyperRESEARH UI, and share some code to help create and manage
multi-pane interfaces (among other things).
Being "stuck" in the beautiful French countryside I would understand if
you don't make it to RevCon West, but fear not -- I can bring it to Euro
RevCon in Malta this November and we'll go over it then, and if I get a
toolkit together before then I can pass it along in the meantime.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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