Re: Using an NSToolbar in a sheet
Re: Using an NSToolbar in a sheet
- Subject: Re: Using an NSToolbar in a sheet
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:47:14 +0100
On 1 Aug 2010, at 23:20, Dave Fernandes wrote:
> I haven't found anything specific in the HIG about this, so I'd be interested in some opinions...
>
> I have an modal editor sheet that attaches to a document window to allow certain document contents to be manipulated. The sheet is somewhat complex, and toolbar items are definitely helpful to have. I can add a toolbar to the sheet, but this doesn't seem to be fully supported by Cocoa, and it may be confusing to the user to have the document window's toolbar right above the sheet's toolbar.
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> It might make more sense to swap the document window's toolbar for the editor toolbar; but, unfortunately, the document window's toolbar always gets disabled when the sheet appears - so this wouldn't work.
>
> Any comments on the UI conundrum?
This is an idea supported by Apple. Check out the Export panel in iWork apps. However, it looks to me like a custom implementation, and think it probably is a smidge confusing. My advice would probably be to use a tabview instead (perhaps hooked up with my KSTabViewController class – yes, shameless promotion).
Mike.
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