What type of window for this?
What type of window for this?
- Subject: What type of window for this?
- From: Darrin Cardani <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:43:09 -0500
I'm porting an application from Windows to Mac OS, and I'm trying to
figure out the proper way to port one particular feature. In this
application, every now and then, an event occurs that the user might
be interested in being notified about. It's not something that needs
immediate attention like you would use an alert or dialog for, but is
just something the user might want to know.
In the Windows version, at this point, a small window comes up over
the system tray and displays the information along with a link the
user can click on to go to a web site that contains more detail. The
window slides up from the task bar, stays up for about 10 seconds,
then slides back down if the user doesn't click on the link. The
window doesn't take focus away from the main application window,
though, so the user can effectively ignore it if they want to.
Now, I could just pop up a utility window with the information, but
I'm just curious if there's anything equivalent to this. (Or better
yet, a more appropriate way to display the information to the user!)
I remember in OS 9, there were small utility-like windows that had a
yellow background that acted sort of like this. I used to always get
one when I rebooted my machine and was on a new network. It would
tell me that it couldn't find my usual printer, and it usually
displayed before the Finder was done starting. It wasn't an alert, it
was just a floating modeless window with some text in it, and if I
didn't dismiss it, it would just go away after some set period of
time (I think).
So is there anything like that in OS X or is there a better way to do
the same thing?
Thanks,
Darrin
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Darrin Cardani - email@hidden
President, Buena Software, Inc.
<http://www.buena.com/>
Video, Image and Audio Processing Development
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