Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
- Subject: Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:37:40 -0500
On 3 Jul 2009, at 1:23 PM, Development wrote:
What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for
documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as
a drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the
document under the modal dialog. We can not use sheets, because
they cover up the document window itself. We can not do Inspectors,
since the operations are intensely modal. We could make the dialog
box application modal (ie. one at any given time), but our client
has really requested document modal, since they are often working
with more then one document at the same time. I know how to write
and invoke the code to make any given window modal to another, but I
am more concerned about the user interface of this. Is there any
suggested way to do this? Something to clue the user to what is
going on?
I don't think you can do it with off-the-shelf components.
An idea, I don't know how difficult: In the document window, under the
title bar, animate in an additional NSView containing the modal
information. It would push the document content down. Institute a
runloop mode (or possibly just a document flag for your UI validation
to inspect) that enables viewing the document, but not changing its
state.
— F
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Fritz Anderson -- Xcode 3 Unleashed: Now in its second printing -- <http://x3u.manoverboard.org/
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