181222 - AAHIG: Save Format pop-up menu between Save As and Where

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephane Moureau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021119 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021119 Chimera/0.6+

Save Format pop-up menu should between Save As and Where and not at the bottom
of the sheet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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If you want to add a Format pop-up menu so that users can specify a document's
file format, place it between the "Save as" text field and the Where pop-up
menu. The system creates a list of native file types supported by the
application to populate the menu. You can supplement this list with custom types
and specify the default format to show when the dialog opens. When a user
changes a document's type with the Format menu, the filename extension (visible
or hidden) should change accordingly. Cocoa applications handle this updating
automatically.

If you add other elements to customize the expanded Save dialog, they should
appear above the Cancel and Save buttons. All custom elements should be visible
in the dialog's minimal (collapsed) state, below the Where pop-up menu. When the
dialog is expanded, custom elements should appear below the New Folder and Add
to Favorites buttons.

Comment 1

[kaldari]

Apple applications typically put the Format pop-up at the bottom like Chimera
does. Do you know of any references that say this should be located between Save
As and Where?

Comment 2

[kaldari]

Maybe I should check the URL, huh? :)

Comment 3

[kaldari]

Found it:
"If you want to add a Format pop-up menu so that users can specify a document's
file format, place it between the "Save as" text field and the Where pop-up menu."

Funny how Apple doesn't follow their own guidelines :)

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I don't think this is possible using Cocoa save panels:

- (void)setAccessoryView:(NSView *)aView
Customizes the panel for the application by adding a custom NSView (aView) to
the panel. The custom NSView that's added appears just above the OK and Cancel
buttons at the bottom of the panel. The NSSavePanel automatically resizes itself
to accommodate aView. You can invoke this method repeatedly to change the
accessory view as needed. If aView is nil, the NSSavePanel removes the current
accessory view.