Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-09-19 Thread Uli Kusterer
What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the document under the modal dialog. We can not use sheets, because they cover up the doc

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-05 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:52:12 -0500, Fritz Anderson said: >On 4 Jul 2009, at 5:41 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: > >> It is a delightful, yet little-known, fact that sheets can emerge >> from *anywhere* on a window - not merely from its top. ... This is >> unusual but only because (IMHO) not enough develop

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-05 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 4 Jul 2009, at 5:41 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote: It is a delightful, yet little-known, fact that sheets can emerge from *anywhere* on a window - not merely from its top. ... This is unusual but only because (IMHO) not enough developers take advantage of this feature! More would take advanta

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-04 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:23:04 -0400, Development said: > For our application (think of it as a >drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the >document under the modal dialog. We can not use sheets, because they >cover up the document window itself. Not necessarily. It is a del

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jul 3, 2009, at 11:23, Development wrote: What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the document under the modal dialog. We can

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread WT
On Jul 3, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Development wrote: You know, that is not a half bad idea. It won't work for all the situations (some of the dialog boxes are to big to fit in a drawer), but it would for several of the smaller ones. Also, if the document is full screen, drawers would be an issue

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread Benjamin Dobson
On 3 Jul 2009, at 19:23:04, Development wrote: This is more for the user interface experts, than the cocoa programming experts... What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), t

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread Development
You know, that is not a half bad idea. It won't work for all the situations (some of the dialog boxes are to big to fit in a drawer), but it would for several of the smaller ones. Also, if the document is full screen, drawers would be an issue. I will still look for a better solution for l

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread WT
On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Development wrote: This is more for the user interface experts, than the cocoa programming experts... What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), th

Re: Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 3 Jul 2009, at 1:23 PM, Development wrote: What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the document under the modal dialog. We can

Movable Document Modal Dialogs

2009-07-03 Thread Development
This is more for the user interface experts, than the cocoa programming experts... What is the suggested user interface when creating modal dialogs for documents that have be movable? For our application (think of it as a drawing program), the user sometimes NEEDS to be able to view the d