Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-18 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 17.06.2008 um 23:41 schrieb Matthew Youney: The structure, documentation of Cocoa, as well as observation of this forum has helped me to evolve (clean up) my OI technique, and hopefully take my code to the next level. Although I have always been a very "hardware oriented" programmer, and

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Uli Kusterer
Am 17.06.2008 um 16:39 schrieb glenn andreas: You can load views into tabs from multiple NIBs as needed - under 10.5 using NSViewController (or some manual grunt work under 10.4). I have a UKNibOwner class that I use for stuff like it. See: http://www.zathras.de/programming/cocoa/U

RE: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Youney
Alfke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:35 PM To: Matthew Youney Cc: Graham Cox; Cocoa Subject: Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows On 17 Jun '08, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote: > This certainly can be easily done using a tab control. T

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Jens Alfke
On 17 Jun '08, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote: This certainly can be easily done using a tab control. The downside is that the entire NIB is loaded at once, adversely affecting performance/ resources. Have you found this to be true in actual operation, or do you just suspect that it wo

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Michael Ash
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Omar Qazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Matthew Youney wrote: >> >> 1. What is the best way to instantiate the "other" windows? In this >> application, all of the windows are quite unique, and there will never be >> more than one in

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote: The screens in out operator interfaces have to be mutually exclusive for a number of reasons. Configuration in one area cannot be altered unless configuration in another area has been completed. Product configuration cannot be taking pla

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread glenn andreas
On Jun 17, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote: This certainly can be easily done using a tab control. The downside is that the entire NIB is loaded at once, adversely affecting performance/ resources. This is not the end of the world, however I am starting with a "clean slate" here, a

RE: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Youney
my rudimentary questions. Thanks to all, Matt -Original Message- From: Graham Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:36 PM To: Jens Alfke Cc: Matthew Youney; Cocoa Subject: Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows On 17 Jun 2008, at 10:39 am

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-16 Thread Omar Qazi
On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Matthew Youney wrote: 1. What is the best way to instantiate the “other” windows? In this application, all of the windows are quite unique, and there will never be more than one instance of each. Should this be done in the “main” controller by loading the N

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-16 Thread Graham Cox
On 17 Jun 2008, at 10:39 am, Jens Alfke wrote: I would think that this is a common application architecture (it is to me) You may be coming from another platform? I can't think of any Mac apps that do this, and frankly, I wouldn't want to use one that did. It does sort of sound like a w

Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-16 Thread Jens Alfke
On 16 Jun '08, at 4:38 PM, Matthew Youney wrote: I am creating an application that requires multiple “modal” windows. There is a “main” window, and there are multiple other windows that can be displayed from the main window (using a toolbar, buttons, etc.). These “other” windows need to b

Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows

2008-06-16 Thread Matthew Youney
I am creating an application that requires multiple “modal” windows. There is a “main” window, and there are multiple other windows that can be displayed from the main window (using a toolbar, buttons, etc.). These “other” windows need to be modal, that is these windows must receive all user inpu