Re: Modal windows

[Adam Fedor]

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.


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