Re: taking control of the screen and "locking" onto one window
Re: taking control of the screen and "locking" onto one window
- Subject: Re: taking control of the screen and "locking" onto one window
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:34:26 +0200
Joar,
On 18.5.2006, at 14:21, j o a r wrote:
I simply think that the OP wants to go from application modal to
user modal. I agree with everyone else in that this is probably a
very bad idea - and also not supported by Apple's HIG, or GUI
application frameworks.
Reminds one it's not that long ago actually machine-modal dialogues
were *the* standard on Mac OS :D
Of course modal's bad (application modal too, that's what sheets and
inspectors and reasonable design is for; it is, for example, pretty
bad that the Open Panel is app-modal, there's no reason for it to be,
and it actually hrams sometimes(*)), but that applies **unless there
are compelling reasons otherwise**. That's what I wanted to point out.
If someone asks "should I make the app modal when cheking for
licence?", the answer would be "gosh, never! Where you got that
terible idea from?!?". Nevertheless, if someone is asking "how to", I
feel the answer should be "this way... (and do re-consider the
decision, for it seems very strange)". But, as a vast majority of
people here did, giving just the "do re-consider" part without the
"this way" one does not seem to me quite right way of answering the
conrete question.
(*) e.g., when I would want to drag a document icon from title of
another window of the same application into the panel to get into the
same folder, which is pretty often.
---
Ondra Čada
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