Re: problems with sheets
Re: problems with sheets
- Subject: Re: problems with sheets
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 08:09:54 -0400
on 2005-05-06 8:32 PM, John Stiles at email@hidden wrote:
>> i realize that this may be counter to the guidelines in that it is a
>> sheet on top of a sheet, but it seems to make sense to attempt to do
>> it this way. however, it doesn't work. there seem to be 2 problems:
>> are my problems most likely caused because cocoa just doesn't support
>> nested sheets?
>
> Yes. This actually came up a few weeks ago and spawned a long thread
> (let's not repeat that) about the evils of nested sheets. Basically, it
> seems rational from a programming/analytical perspecive, but it is
> nasty from an end-user perspective, so don't do it :)
As the original fomenter of said long thread, let me say this:
1. No, it is not true that Cocoa doesn't support nested sheets. It is fairly
straightforward to implement them, though tedious to make sure you got every
detail right.
2. I hereby retract everything I said about nested sheets being an
acceptable design. I switched to Apple's standard approach of putting up a
free-standing alert window when necessary while a sheet is present, and it
is much more intuitive.
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