Am 19.12.2018 05:10:44 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com>:
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 2:20 PM, Chris Mullerwrote:
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> Hi Tim,
>
>> Possibly related functionally but certainly by subject area -
>> the modal dialogues I build for the file chooser etc are 'violated' by a yellowbuttonmenu IF you haven't turned off yellowbutton menus. Not noticed before because my normal preferences do just that; this time I tried some stuff in a very vanilla image and spotted the problem.
>>
>> Open a file chooser. cClick about a bit to make sure it is live. Click yellow button; you can now wander off and click in other windows - you've killed the modal nature of the dialog. You can 'return' by simply clicking in the dialog again.
>
> I'm glad you put 'violated' in quotes like that, since there can be
> other scopes of modality than global. For example, it could extend
> from only the window which spawned it (the ideal), OR (going in the
> other direction to the extreme), what if opening up a FileDialog in
> your Squeak image not only prevented you from interacting with other
> Squeak windows but all other OS windows, too? (Impossible, I know,
> but a question for conceptual illustration..). IMO, any scope beyond
> the minimum scope seems arbitarily restricting.
>
> I think we should consider making all modal dialogs scoped only to the
> spawner.
+10
> As long as the dialog selection works and continues to
> process upon the selection, this sounds like a feature. Because even
> after the user has opened the dialog and navigated to the directory
> they want, if they find different file-names than they expected and
> need to go look elsewhere in the image to confirm, -- it seems
> unnecessary to make them cancel out and go through all of that again.
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
>
>> (I just noticed that using the halo does the same.)
>> Turn off 'generalizedYellowButtonMenu' in the preferences and you don't get the (non-halo) problem.
>>
>>
>> tim
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