On Feb 29, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
I have a an audio plug-in, run inside a host application, that provides me a window in which my plug-in's UI is drawn. What I would like to do is to make a modal window, but one that in ONLY modal in relation to my plug-in window. Is that possible? It's easy on Windows, but I don't see how to do that in Cocoa. The docs talk about an "application modal" or a "modal session", but neither of those looks appropriate. I don't want to prevent the user from accessing the host or OTHER plug-ins' windows, but I need to prevent them from accessing MY plug-in's window until they click Save or Cancel. So application modal doesn't look right. On the other hand, a modal session doesn't seem right, either, since I'm not in a loop doing any work at the time, just waiting for the user to set some plug-in preferences. And I I don't see any way to make the orderingMode permanent, such as an "alwaysOnTop" flag or something.
Sounds like a sheet is what you want. Have a look at -[NSApplication beginSheet:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:]. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com