Re: NSAlert or what?

2009-12-19 Thread Scott Ribe
So the problem I was having with my googling was that I was trying alert, popup and dialog - not sheet ;o) Yep. Just a heads up for future reference (not related to your current question), as you continue on your newbie path, you may find that certain methods dealing with modal windows that

Re: NSAlert or what?

2009-12-19 Thread David A. Lyons
Here's a recipe I discovered recently: Consult the Apple Human Interface Guidelines PDF [1], which sometimes has an Implementation section that tells you what classes, APIs, or constants to use. In this case, browsing for this section: Part III: Aqua Windows

NSAlert or what?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Davey
Hi, Sorry for the really noob posting, but I am currently using the NSAlert class to display alerts in my application, but what I would rather do is display one of the alert boxes that slide out of the title bar, as with the installer, firefox and a slew of other applications. Does anyone know

Re: NSAlert or what?

2009-12-18 Thread Ken Thomases
On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Michael Davey wrote: Sorry for the really noob posting, but I am currently using the NSAlert class to display alerts in my application, but what I would rather do is display one of the alert boxes that slide out of the title bar, as with the installer, firefox

Re: NSAlert or what?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Davey
Thanks for the pointer! On 19 Dec 2009, at 18:37, David A. Lyons wrote: Here's a recipe I discovered recently: Consult the Apple Human Interface Guidelines PDF [1], which sometimes has an Implementation section that tells you what classes, APIs, or constants to use. In this case,

Re: NSAlert or what?

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Davey
So the problem I was having with my googling was that I was trying alert, popup and dialog - not sheet ;o) On 19 Dec 2009, at 18:41, Ken Thomases wrote: On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Michael Davey wrote: Sorry for the really noob posting, but I am currently using the NSAlert class to