Re: Modal windows

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> 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.


-- 
__Pascal_Bourguignon__                   http://www.informatimago.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------------