On May 18, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jeff Johnson > <publicpost...@lapcatsoftware.com> wrote: >> On May 17, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >>> When the panel is summoned, I want the panel to remember the >>> "document" window on whose toolbar item the user clicked, or none if >>> the panel was summoned by the menu item. This is because I want to >>> bring that window forward when I dismiss the panel, or if the menu >>> item was used I will just bring the frontmost document window forward. >> >> I'm not sure I understand why you want to mess with the window ordering. >> When you dismiss the panel, the window that was previously front becomes >> front again, no? Isn't that what the user expects? > > I meant "dismiss by clicking the OK button." So perhaps "confirm" > would be a better choice. > > Basically, I want to support clicking the "Add Item" button in Window > A, switching to Window B to look up some relevant information, > entering the information into the New Item Panel, then clicking OK. > That should create the new item in Window A's sidebar and bring Window > A to the front. > > --Kyle Sluder
Wouldn't you want to tie a notification to the OK action rather than to the window closing? I don't know if you have a Cancel too, but if so, you wouldn't want that to bring the window forward. It's kind of disappointing that nobody else has chimed in on this thread, because it's a pretty fundamental Cocoa issue. -Jeff _______________________________________________ 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
