Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!fergvax!231b3679 From: 231b3679@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Make SFDialogs movableDBoxProc (Was Re: User interface issues) Message-ID: <231b3679.670921946@fergvax> Date: 6 Apr 91 07:12:26 GMT References: <1991Apr4.024724.27910@midway.uchicago.edu> <20072@imag.imag.fr> <1991Apr5.231457.4032@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 31 ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt) writes: >In article <20072@imag.imag.fr> gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) writes: >>In article <1991Apr4.024724.27910@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) writes: >>>I think the Standard File dialog is a relic of the days before Multifinder >>>and inter-application communication. Especially in light of the dramatic >>>improvements in the System 7 Finder, it seems to me that there should be only >>I agree with you, the Standard File dialog shouldn't exist. >>However its disparition brings a couple of problems: >>The open commands sometimes needs aditional parameters to open its >>document (for example are the plain text file with a CR at the >If every application expects a standard file dialog, why can't Apple >make an optional file dialog which is a movable modal dialog? Any >well written application should be able to cope with movable modal >dialogs. Lets get rid of those ugly modal dialogs, and try to restrict >their use to things like alerts and a few other truly modal >situations. Why not have a truly modeless standard file dialog? (I'm >not sure about this one, but with the advent of large screens it >wouldn't create much clutter, and it could be hidden on suspend >events.) When I was working on my Amiga WDEF, I stuck in a little hack so that whenever a 'hit' was detected inside a dialog box's "drag" region, I just stuck in my own DragWindow() call. It's still modal, but atleast you can move the bugger around. What a feeling of power it is to be able to move the Standard File dialogs around... I imagine Apple's Human Interface Death Squad wouldn't like it much... _mike gleason university of nebraska