Some people don't necessarily agree with animation improving the
gui for control components. If you were such a person it might be a
feature you'd consider omitting in your implementation.
Yes, but the decision whether an animation in Mac OS X is an
improvement or not is not mine to make.
If all applications on Mac OS X do a certain animation, then Quaqua
will do them as well.
I mean, the whole idea behind Quaqua, is to make a Java application
blend into the Mac OS X user interface.
I personally like many, but not all of the animations that Mac OS X
does. Apple provides System Settings that allows to switch off those
animations that might be annoying. Sheet animations can't be switched
of though.
For me, the sheet animation really helps to improve the usability of
this control, because it helps me to quickly identify the area on the
screen where the sheet is appearing. Without the animation, the
design of the sheet is so subtle, that it is sometimes hard to notice
that there is a sheet at all on a window (especially, when the size
of the sheet is the same as the underlying window).
Ah, I wondered a little bit about that. It makes sense if you
consider this a MacOSX look and feel enhancement. But what if I am
choosing it as how I want my application's input to work. I would
like the dialog tied to the parent JFrame since I only want the
input information to apply to that one. I like that it is modal
only to that frame. The other things that make a sheet a different
sort of situation?
This will just work. :)
The Mac OS X specific part of this feature is that there is a clear
distinction in the visual design and (and for some of the behavior)
between a document modal dialog and the other types of modal dialogs.
For example, on Windows XP all these dialogs look the same, the only
way to tell that a dialog is document modal and not application
modal, is to try clicking at another application window and see if
interaction is possible while the dialog is open on the other window.
With best regards,
Werner
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