On 1 Aug 2010, at 23:20, Dave Fernandes wrote: > I haven't found anything specific in the HIG about this, so I'd be interested > in some opinions... > > I have an modal editor sheet that attaches to a document window to allow > certain document contents to be manipulated. The sheet is somewhat complex, > and toolbar items are definitely helpful to have. I can add a toolbar to the > sheet, but this doesn't seem to be fully supported by Cocoa, and it may be > confusing to the user to have the document window's toolbar right above the > sheet's toolbar. > > It might make more sense to swap the document window's toolbar for the editor > toolbar; but, unfortunately, the document window's toolbar always gets > disabled when the sheet appears - so this wouldn't work. > > Any comments on the UI conundrum?
This is an idea supported by Apple. Check out the Export panel in iWork apps. However, it looks to me like a custom implementation, and think it probably is a smidge confusing. My advice would probably be to use a tabview instead (perhaps hooked up with my KSTabViewController class – yes, shameless promotion). Mike. _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
