On 01/03/2012, at 10:05 AM, Howard Moon wrote: > HI, > > 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.
Use a sheet. That is Cocoa's solution for making a modal window relative to another window. Don't try to force a non-sheet window always on top or anything like that, your users will think your app/plugin sucks or is broken. --Graham _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
