Guidelines for Content Manipulation (OD PG)

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

Chapter 14 - Guidelines for Content Manipulation
This chapter completes the presentation of the OpenDoc human interface guidelines for the Mac OS platform by describing how your part editor should provide for user modification of content, including data transfer through the clipboard, drag and drop, and linking.
Before reading this chapter, you should be familiar with the information in Chapter 12, "Basic Interface Elements." For guidelines for displaying your part's content, see Chapter 13, "Guidelines for Part Display." 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 8, "Data Transfer."

Chapter Contents

Handling Content

Resizing or Adding Frames When Pasting

Displaying Continuous Content in Sequenced Frames

Drawing Sequence Indicators

Sequenced Frames and Part Windows

Selections in Sequenced Frames

Deleting Content

Supporting Undo

Transferring Data

Single Parts Versus Intrinsic Content

Incorporating Transferred Data

Embedding Transferred Data

Where to Place Transferred Data

Inserting a Document

Pasting

Dropping

Preserving Relationships

Pasting With the Paste As Dialog Box

Using Drag and Drop

Starting a Drag Operation

Providing Destination Feedback

Dropping

Force-Move and Force-Copy

Dropping Content Into a Part Displayed as an Icon

Using Links

Creating and Deleting Links

Displaying Link Information

Updating Links

Editing Links

Showing Link Borders and Selecting Links

Moving and Copying Links

Supporting Scripting

Attaching Scripts

Script-Editing Interface

Dropping Scripts on a Part