Re: drawer attached to modal window is unresponsive
Re: drawer attached to modal window is unresponsive
- Subject: Re: drawer attached to modal window is unresponsive
- From: Steve Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:15:54 -0700
I dumped the items in the drawer so they wouldn't take up real estate
unless needed since they can be on the bulky side. I ended up
scrapping the drawer and just putting the items in the window itself.
Bigger window but fewer issues.
Thanks...
steve
On May 30, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:
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Hi, Steve!
My experience is that drawers have always been buggy -- and drawers
have had issues with Garbage Collection, too, under Leopard
(although I haven't tested any drawers in a GC app since I upgraded
from 10.5.2 to to 10.5.3 the other day).
Also, I've read on this list that drawers confuse people, and
*some* might even call them poor UI. There are alternatives for
some situations, in my opinion, such as child/parent window
pairings, inspector utility windows, and controls in toolbars.
That said, I don't have an exact answer for your main issue -- I
think that someone else will likely have one that will solve it --
but in response to your last question, I would personally give up
on the drawer. They've been nothing but trouble -- which is
perhaps why Apple has all but dumped them in their own programs --
Mail.app's sidebar, for instance, is now a source list in the main
window, instead of being in a drawer.
Cheers,
Andrew
On May 30, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:
I'm working on a plugin that needs to do some involved setup, and
I'm handling this in a modal window since the setup has to be done
in an atomic fashion. The window also has an attached drawer. What
I'm finding is that I can open and close the drawer, and a table
view in the drawer will scroll if I move a scroll wheel while the
mouse is over the table, but if I click on any of the controls in
the drawer, I just hear a beep instead of having something useful
happen.
Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to allow the drawer to
process user events or should I give up on the drawer?
steve
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