I dumped the items in the drawer so they wouldn't take up real estate unless needed since they can be on the bulky side. I ended up scrapping the drawer and just putting the items in the window itself. Bigger window but fewer issues.

Thanks...
steve


On May 30, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

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Hi, Steve!

My experience is that drawers have always been buggy -- and drawers have had issues with Garbage Collection, too, under Leopard (although I haven't tested any drawers in a GC app since I upgraded from 10.5.2 to to 10.5.3 the other day).

Also, I've read on this list that drawers confuse people, and *some* might even call them poor UI. There are alternatives for some situations, in my opinion, such as child/parent window pairings, inspector utility windows, and controls in toolbars.

That said, I don't have an exact answer for your main issue -- I think that someone else will likely have one that will solve it -- but in response to your last question, I would personally give up on the drawer. They've been nothing but trouble -- which is perhaps why Apple has all but dumped them in their own programs -- Mail.app's sidebar, for instance, is now a source list in the main window, instead of being in a drawer.

Cheers,
        Andrew

On May 30, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:

I'm working on a plugin that needs to do some involved setup, and I'm handling this in a modal window since the setup has to be done in an atomic fashion. The window also has an attached drawer. What I'm finding is that I can open and close the drawer, and a table view in the drawer will scroll if I move a scroll wheel while the mouse is over the table, but if I click on any of the controls in the drawer, I just hear a beep instead of having something useful happen.

Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to allow the drawer to process user events or should I give up on the drawer?

steve

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