Answer Dialog at ScreenLoc?

[Richard Gaskin]

FlexibleLearning at aol.com wrote:
> Richard asked:
> 
> 
>>Neither HIG specifies exactly where modal dialogs  should be placed 
>>(please pass me the URL if you find that -- I've come  up empty).  The 
>>closest thing we have is the Mac Classic HIG  comment on modal dialog  
>>placement:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-117.htm
> l
> 
> 
> Here you are, Richard...
>  
> Link to window positioning OSX  HIG:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidel
> ines/XHIGWindows/chapter_17_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000957-200009
> 61-BACFHDHE
> 
> 
> "Positioning  Windows
> 
> "Whenever your application displays a window, you must decide  where to put 
> it and how big to make it. New document windows should open  horizontally 
> centered and should display as much of the document content as  possible. The top 
> of the document window should butt up against the menu bar (or  the application’
> s toolbar, if one is open and positioned below the menu bar).  Subsequent 
> windows should open to the right 20 pixels and down 20 pixels. Make  sure that no 
> part of a new window overlaps with the Dock. For more information  about the 
> Dock, see “The Dock” (page 56). For nondocument windows, the  preference is 
> to open new windows horizontally centered as shown in Figure  13-17. The 
> vertical position should be visually centered: The distance from the  bottom of the 
> window to the top of the Dock (if it’s at the bottom of the  screen) should be 
> approximately twice the distance as that from the bottom of  the menu bar to 
> the top of the window. Subsequent windows are moved to the right  20 pixels 
> and down 20 pixels. Make sure that no part of a new window overlaps  with the 
> Dock."

Thanks.

I've seen that one, and use the behavior for my apps that have 
documents, but it wasn't clear to me whether they were including dialogs 
with that or just documents.

In the olden days we could just jump onto the HI Dev discussion list and 
get answers there, but Apple shut that list down when the internal 
schism between NeXTites and Mac loyalists became an embarassment. ::sigh::

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