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Re: Multiple movable modals
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Re: Multiple movable modals


  • Subject: Re: Multiple movable modals
  • From: Zach Wily <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:58:04 -0600

Andy,

You can try something like this:

[currentModalWindow addChildWindow:newModalWindow ordered:NSWindowAbove];
[NSApp runModalForWindow:newModalWindow];
// Modal window runs here
[currentModalWindow removeChildWindow:newModalWindow];
[newModalWindow orderOut:self];


I've done that before to have a modal window on top of another modal window, and it worked fine if I remember correctly.

zach


On Jun 14, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Andy Bettis wrote:

Hello again,

In my app I want to display a moveable modal dialog. (Please take my word that I have good reasons for doing this.) I have subclassed NSWindowController to control the dialog, with an init method:

- (id)init
{
    self = [super initWithWindowNibName:@"CCategoriesDialog"];
    return(self);
}

I use a class method to start the dialog up:

+ (id)create:(MyDocument*) inDocument
{
    CCategoriesDialog* theDialog = [[CCategoriesDialog alloc] init];

    [theDialog setDocument:inDocument];

    [[theDialog window] setLevel:NSModalPanelWindowLevel];

    [NSApp runModalForWindow:[theDialog window]];

    [theDialog showWindow:self];

    return(theDialog);
}

And I have a 'go away' method:

- (IBAction)OK:(id)sender
{
    [NSApp stopModal];

    [self autorelease];
}

So far, all is well. Should I be doing anything else to tidy up when the panel goes away?

Unfortunately I want to spawn a second modal dialog from this one. When I do so it looks fine but the new window is not modal, it is possible to click and select the first one, which is not what I want. I imagine that I need to call [NSApp stopModal] on the first window before calling [NSApp runModalForWindow:[theDialog window]] on the second one - is this true? If so I need to know when the second one has gone away so I can restore the [NSApp runModalForWindow:[theDialog window]] call on the first window again. What I would like to do is to put the NSApp modal on/off calls in methods that are called when the window becomes or stops being the key window but I can't work out where this should be. Do I need to use notifications for this?

Also, is it possible to set the window level in IB?

Thanks in advance,

Rev. Andy

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