Drawers, documentation issue??

[Richard Gaskin]

Mick Collins wrote:
> What am I missing here?  I am running rev 2.8.1.   I didn't know how  
> to use drawers (in fact, didn't know exactly what was meant by a  
> drawer).  So I did what (I hope) anyone would do, I used the rev  
> documentation (and I had downloaded the latest version of the docs a  
> week ago).  It clearly says, and I quote, no, copy and paste:
> 
>    Cross-platform note:  On Mac OS, Unix, and Windows systems,  
> drawers are not supported, so the drawercommand opens the stack as a  
> palette instead. The palette uses the current rectangle of the stack  
> and does not resize or move it.
> 
> ?????????????????????????????????????

I find a lot more than that.  Have you seen drawers in action?  They're 
truly an OS X-specific feature.  The old Mac OS (v9 and earlier) didn't 
support them, and neither Windows nor Linux nor Unix support them.

The docs seem in order here to me - what am I missing?

If you're not familiar with drawers, you probably don't need them. While 
Steve Jobs likes to give demos with them, they really don't provide much 
that isn't already provided with a disclosure triangle, which Apple 
continues to also recommend:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_18_section_7.html>


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