Re: Output from NSTask and modal window
Re: Output from NSTask and modal window
- Subject: Re: Output from NSTask and modal window
- From: "Sven-S. Porst" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:31:49 +0100
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what I meant is that when you call runModalSession, it puts the current
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run loop in ModalPanelMode.
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Thus, the runloop does not care any more for things that are only to be
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watched in NSDefaultRunLoopMode.
I thought it would be a good idea to just make the run loop care for the
things I think it should care for - but the run loop business doesn't
make enough sense to me to figure out how to do this.
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If you want to simulate a modal panel without changing the current mode,
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you can :
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- set the level of the panel to NSModalPanelWindowLevel
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- make it key and order front,
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- filter the NSEvents in sendEvent: method of NSApp, to only deliver
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those events that are about your panel,
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until you click one of those famous OK/CANCEL... buttons that would make
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this pseudo modal mode stop.
This would somehow evade my initial reason to use a modal window, I
suppose. I would be perfectly happy to use a normal window, but as I am
doing this while running a service, I have something like
- (void)myService:(NSPasteboard *)pboard
userData:(NSString *)data
error:(NSString **)error
{
..
result = [NSApp runModalForWindow: ...];
..
}
and I suppose that I have to have the result ready by the time, my
function returns. So I don't think it is an option to so something like that.
Cheers
Sven
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