Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
- Subject: Re: [OT] Host Developers! - SheetWindows
- From: Urs Heckmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:02:40 +0200
Am Montag, 29.09.03, um 18:06 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb James
Chandler Jr:
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 06:37 AM, Urs Heckmann wrote:
Hi,
this question is for host developers:
I'm going to implement SheetWindows with default EventHandler in my
AUView stuff. So far, I could test in some hosts (Cocoa and Carbon),
without experiencing problems. But I could only test with a Music
Device, yet, hence not all hosts.
Hi Urs
Apologies for an off-topic comment.
Perhaps SheetWindows are different from the Sheet version of modal
dialogs used in OSX. So maybe this comment is completely irrelevant to
your usage.
I realize Sheet dialogs are supposed to enhance user experience by
visually tying the dialog to the parent window, and perhaps more
importantly they 'look cool'.
However, many times I've clicked a button which opens a sheet dialog,
and the sheet dialog is asking questions which would best be answered
if I could see the parent window (for instance, to make sure I've
selected the correct file to perform some possibly destructive > action).
However, the !@#$% sheet is obscuring the parent window and I can't
double check without dismissing the dialog, re-examine the parent
window, and then re-invoke the sheet.
Maybe I'm an old fogey, but this seems just as bad as the old
non-movable modal dialogs of years ago. I would rather have movable
modal dialogs rather than sheets, so I can move them out of the way
and check parent window settings before hitting OK on the dialog.
James Chandler Jr.
James, I'll follow your objections. In Zebra, it looks very cool (with
transparency ;) and the purpose of the input is never obscured by the
window.
I use sheet windows to add some preferences mangling with Aqua
controls, because these do their job (i.e. text input) better than any
CAUGuiCtrl I could invent. (But they don't look funky if embedded in a
funky gui, so...)
Cheers,
;) Urs
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