Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Thanks everyone. I ended up just disabling the option in the end. Cheers Jeff Thanks Andy and Jean-Daniel. Peter On 07/07/2008, at 3:34 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Yes: (by way of DaringFireball) --Andy On Jul 6, 2008, at

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Thanks Andy and Jean-Daniel. Peter On 07/07/2008, at 3:34 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Yes: (by way of DaringFireball) --Andy On Jul 6, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: I haven't test but -[NSMenuItem setTool

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Yes: (by way of DaringFireball) --Andy On Jul 6, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: I haven't test but -[NSMenuItem setToolTip:] look fine to do this. Now, just chek if this methods works even when the item

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

I haven't test but -[NSMenuItem setToolTip:] look fine to do this. Now, just chek if this methods works even when the item is disabled. Le 6 juil. 08 à 16:31, Peter Zegelin a écrit : Some of the commenters suggest a tool tip over the disabled menu explaining why it is disabled, which sounds re

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Some of the commenters suggest a tool tip over the disabled menu explaining why it is disabled, which sounds reasonable. As a newby here would this be easy to implement in Cocoa? On 07/07/2008, at 12:02 AM, Graham Cox wrote: Wow, I'm really surprised that Joel Spolsky of all people would sa

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Wow, I'm really surprised that Joel Spolsky of all people would say this - and so recently too. I used to like System 7's Balloon Help approach - grey out the menu but the help balloon would explain why it wasn't available (at least in an app that took the trouble to implement this). Sadly,

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

Not only his commenters disagree. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/07/01/spolsky-menu-items http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/515/disabled-menus-are-usable And I disagree too. Le 6 juil. 08 à 15:41, Peter Zegelin a écrit : I agree with you but here is JoelOnSoftware saying virtually the

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

I agree with you but here is JoelOnSoftware saying virtually the complete opposite. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/ 2008/07/01.html. Fortunately most of his commenters disagree. On 06/07/2008, at 10:21 PM, Graham Cox wrote: The preferred way to do this is to prevent the user clicking th

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

The preferred way to do this is to prevent the user clicking the button if it's not appropriate by greying it out. This is far more user-friendly than rebuking a user for having the audacity to click your button when they shouldn't have, even though they had no visual cue that they shouldn'

Re: Stopping actions mid stream

On Jul 6, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Jeff Brown wrote: The delegate method has some code that checks whether the radio buttons are allowed to be changed from 1 to 2 and if not, sends an alert to the user. My problem is how can I stop the radio buttons themselves changing from 1 to 2. When programm

Stopping actions mid stream

Hi Guys I've set up matrix with 2 radio buttons (1 and 2) with a delegate method that gets run when the matrix gets clicked. Lets say radio button 1 is highlighted and someone clicks on radio button 2. The delegate method has some code that checks whether the radio buttons are allowed to be cha