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Re: Modal windows
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Modal windows |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:06:24 +0200 (CEST) |
> From: Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>
> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 09:40:46 -0600
>
> Pete French wrote:
> >>Certainly I can see that having menus stop working could be a very bad
> >>thing.
> >
> >
> > Hmm, but isnt that the point ? You make a window modal so that the user can
> > only interact with that window. This ois certainly theOpenSteop behaviour
> > and the NextStep behaviour. Its how you make certain actions in an App
> > effectively "atomic". I had always assumed it to be a bug too - it can lead
> > to many undesireable effects.
> >
>
> Well, the way it works now is that the menus still 'work' in that you
> can open and close submenus, select menu items,etc. However, unless the
> key window (e.g. the modal window) responds to a menu action, the action
> will not get sent. In this way, you could, say, paste a selection into a
> modal window. Although menu items with specific targets would still work
> also and that may be bad.
>
> NextStep's behavior is a little odd, in that you can't actually use the
> mouse to select menu items, but you can still use key equivelants.
Not all. There's a special hack in the text objects to handle cut,
copy and paste, (x,c,v) but that's all, IIRC.
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- Modal windows, mdurkac, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Pete French, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Pascal Bourguignon, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Pete French, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Pascal Bourguignon, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, Pete French, 2002/07/03
- Re: Modal windows, mdurkac, 2002/07/04