May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
18h 57m
English
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Exercises
Go through Section 1.10. Make a list of the things you discovered while working through the steps.
Open document windows, utility windows, and dialogs in the TextEdit application to convince yourself that the window order we discussed in this chapter is accurate.
Open two viewer windows, utility windows, and dialogs in the Mail application to convince yourself that the window order we discussed in this chapter is accurate. Note how the Colors and Font utility windows are the same from application to application.
Look at the Services menu for several Mac OS X applications, including the Finder, Mail, TextEdit, and your web browser. Determine why services are included for some applications but not others. Also determine the context in which services items are dimmed and unavailable for these same applications.
See how many violations of Aqua user interface guidelines you can find in the bundled applications in the
/Applicationsfolder. Look for naming, menu placement, key equivalents, and window-order violations. Use the references in the next section.Go through Section 1.12. Make a list of the things you discovered while working through the steps.
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