As Sheet Dialog

[Jan Schenkel]

I would go for this approach as well - for the simple reason that it avoids 'traversalOn' issues where the user could still 'tab' to a control and then press the 'space' or 'return' key to activate a button.
Plus, disabled controls look slightly different, and combined with an opaque 'overlay' graphic that has a blendLevel of 80 or so, you can even set its background colour to convey a difference between regular (white), warning (orange) and error (red) situations and questions.
Two years ago, I used this approach in a Java Swing application, and people appreciated it a lot - even if it was Mac-like UI element seeping into a Windows/Unix environment.

Just my 2 cents,

Jan Schenkel.
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--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Marty Knapp <martyknapp at comcast.net> wrote:
> What about placing everything that
> will be behind your dialog into a group, then disable the
> group when showing the dialog and enabling it when it
> closes?
> 
> Marty Knapp
> > Please, anyone...
> > In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very
> small text dialogs that appear in the Windows' version of
> applications by rolling my own. Some Dialogs such as the
> page setup present some major challenges to doing this, but
> with others it's not really much of a problem; however, I
> would like the ones that I do create make their appearance
> as sheets. Can that be done? Also... I'm not using stacks
> for these Dialogs. I'm just creating Text fields with
> overlying buttons. The problem with this is that I need to
> implement a method by which these "Dialogs" can be modal in
> behavior. I am doing that by including a mouseUp handler in
> the stack script that requires certain activity when a given
> item is visible. Anyone have a better method of doing this?
> Is there something already built in that does this?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Joe Lewis Wilkins
> > Architect&  Director of Product Development
> for GSI
> > <www.glsysinc.com>
> 
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