Oh, it's probably not. So many other interesting things are higher up the
stack, though.
- Original Message -
From: "Andreas Mayer"
To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:38:50 AM
Subject: Re: Stack of NSWindow sheets
Am 28.04.2011 um 04:31
Am 28.04.2011 um 04:31 schrieb Lee Ann Rucker:
> It would be nice if there was some sort of built-in combining stack,
> especially for the info-only dialogs, the way starting multiple file copies
> in the Finder gives you one window with multiple sections instead of multiple
> windows.
Why no
windows.
- Original Message -
From: "Oleg Andreev"
To: "Graham Cox"
Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com, "Gregory Weston"
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:35:39 AM
Subject: Re: Stack of NSWindow sheets
I'll clarify what I meant.
Normally, user will see o
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Gregory Weston wrote:
> I increasingly believe you're using the wrong UI for the need you describe.
> I'm not confident I have a good guess at what the *right* one is,
> unfortunately, but sheets spontaneously opening like this really feels wrong.
> It seems it
On Apr 27, 2011, at 09:35, Oleg Andreev wrote:
> I'll clarify what I meant.
>
> Normally, user will see only one sheet at a time. There won't be any sort of
> step-by-step sheet switching within a single task (like in Xcode 4 when
> creating a new file). The only issue I'm trying to solve is p
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Oleg Andreev wrote:
> Again, normally you'll see no dialogs at all (when the password is already
> stored in keychain) or a single dialog when a new repository is added or the
> password was changed. But I should have a nice fallback for a case when
> several di
I swear I've seen this in some open source code – maybe Adium?
On 26 Apr 2011, at 19:55, Oleg Andreev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a well-known way (or a library) to keep a stack (or queue) of sheets
> per window?
>
> I'm a developer of Gitbox - a git repository manager. It keeps several repo
I'll clarify what I meant.
Normally, user will see only one sheet at a time. There won't be any sort of
step-by-step sheet switching within a single task (like in Xcode 4 when
creating a new file). The only issue I'm trying to solve is presenting a
username/password dialog when it was invoked b
I've seen an app that uses a stack of sheets in this fashion, and it's a
horrid, barely usable mess. It's a Microsoft app, though I forget exactly which
(and it may have been fixed, as this was quite some time ago).
The problem is that the user either has to remember the "path" that led them
th
Oleg Andreev wrote:
> Is there a well-known way (or a library) to keep a stack (or queue) of sheets
> per window?
>
> I'm a developer of Gitbox - a git repository manager. It keeps several repos
> opened and periodically updates them. If some repos require authentication, a
> modal dialog pop
On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:55, Oleg Andreev wrote:
> 2. Is it a good way to solve the problem? Maybe I miss some subtle issues
> with AppKit or user experience.
I'd say the difficulty with this approach is that, at any given moment, there
may be a stack of dialogs (of fairly critical importance) bu
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