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RE: NSPanel shown as sheet comes up partially transparent
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RE: NSPanel shown as sheet comes up partially transparent


  • Subject: RE: NSPanel shown as sheet comes up partially transparent
  • From: "Michael Latta" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:20:19 -0700

Look in the apple guidelines for when a sheet should be partially
transparent.  I imagine the system is doing what it is supposed to do.  My
Mac is turned off at the moment or I would look.  But, could it be that you
are not setting it up as a modal sheet?

Michael

>
> This is weird.
>
>   So, my application has a main window, and at a certain point, I want to
> show an NSPanel as a sheet.
>
>   So, I fire up the sheet (loaded from a separate nib file) with
> beginSheet:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contexInfo and then
> use runModalForWindow: to run it as a modal dialog.
>
>   And my NSPanel comes up partially transparent -- looks like about 0.8 on
> the alphaValue ???
>
>   Perhaps I accidentally set something in IB?  I can't see any
> "trasparency"
> settings for NSPanel in IB.
>
>   Perhaps the isOpaque or alphaValue on the NSPanel is screwed up.
> Printing
> both values shows "YES" and "1.0" respectively, as expected.
>
>   So does anybody have any idea why my panel is showing up partially
> transparent?  And if the answer is "it's supposed to do that", is there
> any
> way to  stop it?  I show a print panel right after my panel goes away, and
> the latter is most certainly not partially transparent -- the contrast is
> jarring.
>
>   ??
>
>   thanks,
>   marc.

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