Inside Macintosh: OpenDoc Programmer's Guide / Part 3 - Human Interface Guidelines

Chapter 13 - Guidelines for Part Display

This chapter continues the presentation of the OpenDoc human interface guidelines for the Mac OS platform by describing how your part should handle fundamental aspects of its display. In particular, it presents suggestions for

• displaying your part when its document opens
• activating your part
• creating and drawing selections
• changing how your part is viewed

Before reading this chapter, you should be familiar with the information in Chapter 12, "Basic Interface Elements." For guidelines for modifying your part's content, see Chapter 14, "Guidelines for Content Manipulation." See also Appendix B, "HI Checklist," for a quick summary of all guidelines.

Programming instructions related to the guidelines in this chapter are found elsewhere in this book; see especially Chapter 4, "Drawing," and Chapter 5, "User Events."

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Chapter Contents

Opening and Closing

Opening and Closing Documents

Creating Parts From Tool Palettes

Displaying Your Editor Name and Part Kind

Activation

Activating Parts

Activating Windows

Selection

Making a Range Selection

Making Multiple Selections

Extending a Selection

Making a Discontiguous Selection

Resizing Selected Frames

Selecting Hot Parts

Bundling Frames

Changing Views

Changing the View Type of a Part

Viewing Embedded Parts in Part Windows

Repositioning Content in a Frame

Multiple Views of a Part

Automatic Scrolling

Displaying Part Information and Settings

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