[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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."
Thanks.
I've seen that one, and use the behavior for my apps that have
documents, but it wasn't clear to me whether they were including dialogs
with that or just documents.
In the olden days we could just jump onto the HI Dev discussion list and
get answers there, but Apple shut that list down when the internal
schism between NeXTites and Mac loyalists became an embarassment. ::sigh::
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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