On 19 Dec 2015, at 09:51, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > My use case is an interface that sets up a batch of files for saving in a > particular folder. The user chooses the folder using a standard NSOpenPanel, > but I want to display the chosen location in the UI so that they don’t need > to remember it. I don’t think a NSPathControl is really appropriate for this.
What gives you that impression? That seems to be exactly what it was made for. > But I do want the string to be the most understandable for the user. I don’t > know really how many average users understand what ~/ means, but it’s > probably the best I can do. "~" is a nerd thing. If you're in any way in touch with whoever does your support, you don't want to add something this confusing to your GUI. What I did in UKFilePathView is just shorten the path at the start to a point of interest when displaying it, e.g. having the path display just start at the home folder and using the file icon to have the user recognize it is a user folder. Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://stacksmith.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
