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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:12

has anyone out there in my socials ever built an "Open Quickly…" UI?

i've been looking over Xcode's Open Quickly UI and it's… interesting.

and i've been contrasting it to the Spotlight Cmd-Space UI. also interesting.

they look pretty similar. and they behave mostly the same. but there are tons of quirks in both. and not the same.

just curious if anyone's built a canonical version of this sort of UI. otherwise i'm afraid i'm heading down a world of custom UI hurt and i just can't even.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:17

quirk 1:

in spotlight the table shows a gray highlight and the text entry gets the primary selection and first responder.

in Open Quickly both the text AND the table view get a primary selection color

wait! wat!?! -- which is first responder?

i don't even know.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:18

quirk 2:

in spotlight typing tab moves the primary selection from the text to the table.

in Open Quickly typing tab does nothing. both items remain co-primary or something.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:21

in both typing left/right arrow moves the selection point and typing up/down arrow moves the tableview selection.

that's not quirky. that's actually nice. each item in the responder chain acts on the events appropriate to itself and then passes other events onward.

but still kinda weird that some arrows move one thing and some move the other.

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Written by isaiah on 2025-01-09 at 04:23

quirk 3:

in Spotlight typing Cmd-Up/Cmd-Down moves the table-view selection up and down by a whole section.

in Open Quickly typing Cmd-Up moves the insertion point to the beginning of the text. but (sub-quirk -- calling it #4) typing Cmd-Down doesn't seem to do anything at all. that just gets swallowed.

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