Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
- Subject: Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:31:32 -0700
On Jul 3, 2009, at 11:23, 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?
Seems to me you want to do two things: lock out a document and display
another window, and the ideal way to lock out a document is to use a
sheet. So do these two things.
First, put up a sheet on your document window that's small (say one
text line high, with a brief message explaining why the document is
locked out) and has no buttons. Then display a second (non-modal)
window as your dialog.
Closing the dialog would also end the sheet of the document window.
You might have to slightly redesign your document window if the little
sheet would cover up something important at the top of the window.
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