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Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
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Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs


  • Subject: Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
  • From: Development <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:01:22 -0400

You know, that is not a half bad idea. It won't work for all the situations (some of the dialog boxes are to big to fit in a drawer), but it would for several of the smaller ones. Also, if the document is full screen, drawers would be an issue. I will still look for a better solution for larger dialogs.

Thanks

Steve

On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:43 PM, WT wrote:

On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Development wrote:

This is more for the user interface experts, than the cocoa programming experts...

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?

Thanks,

Steve

This may be a really dumb idea, since I'm not a very experienced Cocoa developer, but can a drawer be document-modal?


Wagner

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