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Re: Closing windows bearing sheets
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Re: Closing windows bearing sheets


  • Subject: Re: Closing windows bearing sheets
  • From: Dan Bernstein <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:05:32 +0200

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 12:06 AM, email@hidden wrote:

You can see what I mean by opening TextEdit, creating 2 new documents,
choosing Page Setup for one of them and option-clicking the close widget
of the other. This will close the 2 windows, including the one which was
displaying the Page Setup sheet. Trying to quit TextEdit now wouldn't
work.

Step 1. Log a bug on Apple.

Not sure exactly what to report as the bug. This is not a bug in Cocoa, I think, but it's a bug almost bound to occur in any app. So do I log it as a TextEdit bug and that's it?

Step 2. Wait for Apple to fix it. :->

While waiting, there's very little information available to me as to what's happening with the bug. I can only see the last modification date, state and resolution. Is there any way to find out more?

There are lots of bugs in Cocoa -- Radar has many thousands of open bugs just on Cocoa, I would guess. Trying to work around all of them is a lost cause. If the bug bites TextEdit and more or less every other app on the system, I would leave it to Apple to fix.
The tragic exception is if your app's design is such that it "exercises" a particular bug much more than other apps. For example, if this option-click thing is for some reason integral to the use of your app, then you might need to find a workaround (in which case I can't help you, if you were wondering about that :->). But I didn't know option-click even *did* this, and I've been using OS X since it was called NeXTSTEP. I'm guessing the numbers of users of your app that will hit this bug is pretty close to zero.

The context in my app is different than option-closing, and is more likely to occur, I think. More details (if you're interested) in my next reply on this subject.

Thanks,
-- Dan Bernstein
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