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Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows

Am Montag, 29.09.03, um 18:06 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb James Chandler Jr:

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:37 AM, Urs Heckmann wrote:
Hi,

this question is for host developers:

I'm going to implement SheetWindows with default EventHandler in my AUView stuff. So far, I could test in some hosts (Cocoa and Carbon), without experiencing problems. But I could only test with a Music Device, yet, hence not all hosts.

Hi Urs

Apologies for an off-topic comment.

Perhaps SheetWindows are different from the Sheet version of modal dialogs used in OSX. So maybe this comment is completely irrelevant to your usage.

I realize Sheet dialogs are supposed to enhance user experience by visually tying the dialog to the parent window, and perhaps more importantly they 'look cool'.

However, many times I've clicked a button which opens a sheet dialog, and the sheet dialog is asking questions which would best be answered if I could see the parent window (for instance, to make sure I've selected the correct file to perform some possibly destructive > action).

However, the !@#$% sheet is obscuring the parent window and I can't double check without dismissing the dialog, re-examine the parent window, and then re-invoke the sheet.

Maybe I'm an old fogey, but this seems just as bad as the old non-movable modal dialogs of years ago. I would rather have movable modal dialogs rather than sheets, so I can move them out of the way and check parent window settings before hitting OK on the dialog.

James Chandler Jr.

James, I'll follow your objections. In Zebra, it looks very cool (with transparency ;) and the purpose of the input is never obscured by the window.

I use sheet windows to add some preferences mangling with Aqua controls, because these do their job (i.e. text input) better than any CAUGuiCtrl I could invent. (But they don't look funky if embedded in a funky gui, so...)

Cheers,

;) Urs
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