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 _______________________________________________ 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
