Richard asked: >Neither HIG specifies exactly where modal dialogs should be placed >(please pass me the URL if you find that -- I've come up empty). The >closest thing we have is the Mac Classic HIG comment on modal dialog >placement: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-117.htm l
Here you are, Richard... Link to window positioning OSX HIG: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidel ines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-200009 61-BACFHDHE "Positioning Windows "Whenever your application displays a window, you must decide where to put it and how big to make it. New document windows should open horizontally centered and should display as much of the document content as possible. The top of the document window should butt up against the menu bar (or the application’ s toolbar, if one is open and positioned below the menu bar). Subsequent windows should open to the right 20 pixels and down 20 pixels. Make sure that no part of a new window overlaps with the Dock. For more information about the Dock, see “The Dock” (page 56). For nondocument windows, the preference is to open new windows horizontally centered as shown in Figure 13-17. The vertical position should be visually centered: The distance from the bottom of the window to the top of the Dock (if it’s at the bottom of the screen) should be approximately twice the distance as that from the bottom of the menu bar to the top of the window. Subsequent windows are moved to the right 20 pixels and down 20 pixels. Make sure that no part of a new window overlaps with the Dock." /H _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
