Re: NSSavePanel complains about .hidden

[Adam Fedor]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>  > BTW, this error message is shown eight times, when a NSSavePanel is 
> opened,
>  > although only two columns are shown. I will inspect into this to find
>  > out if there are unneeded operations going on.
>
> After a bit of investigation I did find out that this behaviour is there 
> by specification. The NSDocumentController first initialises the 
> NSOpenPanel by setting the directory and than starts it without giving a 
> directory. This leads to the NSBrowser being set to the same path twice 
> and thereby reading all the directories in the path twice.
> As it is hard to determine if we get the same path again in NSBrowser, I 
> would recommend that we change the NSDocumentController to start up the 
> NSOpenPanel with the directory directly, without first setting this.
>
> This is not exactly what the specification says, so I would like to ask 
> if somebody could test this on MacOSX and even if they do it different, 
> I would vote for this change.

I didn't test this on MacOSX, but it sounds fine to me. Although I don't 
see where either behavior is described in the documentation

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