On 3 Jul 2009, at 19:23:04, 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,
How about a collapsible sheet? That is, a normal sheet, but at the top
there is a disclosure triangle that hides the whole contents of the
sheet, making it about the size of a toolbar. It might not be what you
want, but it's an idea.
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