Re: Controls & Key Equivalents

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Eric Gorr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Eric Gorr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> WHAT does your button DO?
>>>
>>> I don't always know. But, perhaps, bring up another dialog.
>>
>> Then nobody can answer the question.
>
> One possible answer is to place the key-equivalent in a tooltip for the button.

No. Christiaan's whole point is that the answer depends on the context.

> Another possible answer is do what apparent Mac OS did way back when which was to show the key-equivalent when the user pressed the command key.
>
> If you have seen any application which does display what that key-equivalent is for NSButtons, I would be interested in learning what they did.

I haven't seen one on OS X. This is a very Windowsy behavior.

> It will if it is on a dialog which the user visits.

That's not "elsewhere in the application" then.

--Kyle Sluder