Graham Cox (14/8/13, 06:51) said:

>They did, which is why first modeless dialogs (from System 1? 2?) and
>then sheets (OSX 1.0) were developed. Even as far back as the original
>Inside Macintosh the use of modal dialogs was strongly discouraged when
>it was possible to use something else. The original system design used a
>modal Open dialog but this became a modeless dialog in System 7 (1991),
>if I recall correctly.

I must be missing something here.

Which Apple applications have non-modal Open dialogs?

All the ones that I tried (TextEdit, Preview.app, Safari, Xcode 3.2.6) have 
modal Open dialogs - you can't do anything in other documents while the Open 
dialog is displayed.

I'm running Snow Leopard, so maybe things are different in Mountain Lion - but 
Snow Leopard is a long way from System 7.

Jeremy



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