Hi Ian, When you speak of a setup wizard, I think of those Windows-based apps with the Next and Back buttons. In my opinion, those wizards are very Windows-like, and therefore, annoying. ;)
Have you considered displaying a regular dialog box that asks for the relevant information? Unless the profile must contain a high number of settings, a single dialog box, without multiple pages, should be the best interface to request a username and password. Even if the profile contains many settings, it may be best not to prompt for those at all, but rather to set up a profile with sensible defaults. The majority of users can start using the application without much up-front configuration (all they enter is a username and password) and can play with the configuration later to their heart's content. There is another benefit to this idea: when a user opens your application for the first time, he likely won't know what answers to provide to most of your setup questions. People often have a better idea of what they want after using a new application for a little while (and often they'll leave the defaults alone). Soong ----- Original Message ---- From: Ian Piper <ianpi...@mac.com> To: list-cocoa-dev Developers <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 9:54:52 AM Subject: Best practice example for a setup wizard? Hi all, For one of my applications I want to do a check at startup to see whether a profile and password has been set for the current user, and if not to take them through a setup wizard. I'm sure I can mug my way through writing this but it feels like the kind of thing for which there might be an example illustrating best practice. Can anyone point me at some documentation or examples that might help? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Piper ianpi...@mac.com -- If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses (Henry Ford) _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/oftenwrongsoong%40yahoo.com This email sent to oftenwrongso...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
