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On Aug 14, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Jeremy Hughes wrote:

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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