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Aqua Checklist
Selected items from Apple's Aqua Human Interface Guidelines and other sources
Issue: 1.4 (February/March 2003)
Author: Compiled and Editedby Doug Grinbergs
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 3,706
Starting Page Number: 26
RBD Number: 1412
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Related Web Link(s):
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/pdf/apple_styleguide00.pdf
http://mactester.com/aqua-checklist.html
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Menus:
* Dim menu title when all items unavailable
* Ellipsis character (...) at end of menu item (and in buttons) when: further information is required from user, opening alert which allows user to cancel, or application settings window opened
* Contextual menus: small subset of commonly used commands appropriate for the current context
Application menu
* Contains Preferences item; recommended shortcut is <Command><,>
* <Command> Hide Application
* Contains items that apply to the entire application, rather than specific windows
* Services submenu takes advantage of Grab, Mail, Make New Sticky Note, Summarize, TextEdit, other installed services
File menu
* Open Recent submenu appears after Open command, most recent items displayed at the top
* Use Save As?avoid Save a Copy or Save To
* For an app that's not document-based, it may make sense to eliminate the File menu, or to rename it
* The Close menu item changes to Close All when <Option> key pressed; <Command><Option><W> closes all
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