open a palette window over a modal window under OS 9

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Chris,

This is not bug. In fact, I am very happy that this works properly in  
Mac OS 9. There is no workaround that is practible and complies with  
Apple's GUI rules. In every operating system, an application should  
halt while a modal dialog is open, until the dialog closes.

I suggest you just accept that the Help window is not available, as  
Mac OS 9 users would be surprised if they could access the Help  
window while a modal dialog is open. They would consider it a bug in  
your software.

Best,

Mark

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Op 12-jun-2006, om 18:38 heeft Chris Sheffield het volgende geschreven:

> I think I've found a bug in Rev, and I want to see if anyone has  
> ever experienced this and if so, if there is a workaround.
>
> I've got an application that we are supposed to release this week,  
> so this is kind of urgent. In this app, I've got a main window that  
> opens a stack as modal. This is so the user cannot interact with  
> the main window while the other is open. But then from the modal  
> window, there is a help stack that I open as a palette. This works  
> fine under Windows and OS X, but under OS 9, there's a problem. The  
> palette stack does not get focus when it opens, and you cannot  
> interact with it at all. You can't even close it. It's like the  
> modal stack is taking over, and in fact, when I click anywhere in  
> the palette stack, I get the beep from the computer indicating that  
> I can't do anything with it. The palette window does open over the  
> top of the modal one, however. Then once I close the modal window,  
> I can interact with the palette. Bug? Shouldn't it behave the same  
> way on all platforms?
>
> After doing some additional testing, it doesn't matter which mode I  
> use for that help stack. I cannot interact with it at all from the  
> modal one. Can anyone think of a workaround for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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