On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:

worse & worse: very clever, kyle—thanks for pointing this out!

>> i had this problem too: you can show the alert on the main thread via e.g. 
>> performSelectorOnMainThread. (as was kindly pointed out to me by, if i 
>> remember correctly,  graham cox).
> 
> I would not advise this. The main thread may itself be blocked due to waiting 
> on your document via -performSychronousFileAccesdUsingBlock:.
> 
> Matthew, could you perhaps perform automatic conversion, mark the document as 
> untitled, and display a notice about automatic conversion once the document 
> has been asked to -showWindows? This is the strategy I’ve suggested 
> implementing in our own apps in the future.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> - initWithContentsOfURL:… {
>  self = [super initWithContentsOfURL:…];
>  if (_autoConverted)
>    [self setDraft:YES];
>  return self;
> }
> 
> - showWindows {
>  [super showWindows];
>  if (_autoConverted) {
>    NSAlert *autoConversionAlert = …;
>    NSWindow *docWindow = self.windowControllers[0].window;
>    [alert beginSheetModalForWindow:window completionHandler:…];
> }
> 
> --Kyle Sluder


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