On 14/08/2013, at 12:05 PM, Jeremy Hughes <jer...@softpress.com> wrote:
> 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. Well, just quickly looking at TextEdit & Preview for example, the Open dialog is quite definitely non-modal (10.8). XCode and Safari do have application-modal dialogs. This might be something new since Snow Leopard, maybe due to Powerbox? My memory may be unreliable, but I thought that the Open dialog that was part of Navigation Services (Mac OS 8) was modeless, and that was a more generalised version of the one in System 7.x. At the very least you could switch to another app while the dialog was showing, unlike previous versions. They still had Open/Cancel buttons (and still do in TextEdit, etc), so the appearance is of a modal panel, even though they do not behave totally modally. --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
