Re: Creating custom sheets

FROM : Ken Thomases
DATE : Sat Mar 22 16:35:49 2008

On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Ken Thomases <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Kevin Dixon wrote:
> > I want to create a custom sheet that displays a bit of text, a
> > progress
> > bar and an abort button. The Apple docs say use interface builder to
> > make
> > the UI for the sheet, but what should I add to my NIB, a window,
> > panel, or
> > custom view?
>
> A window.  :)
>
> That's what I'd use for new work. But, as someone else noted in 
> another recent discussion, an NSPanel works just as well, so I 
> wouldn't bother changing any NIBs that were created with NSPanel.
>
> Notice the argument types for the beginSheet... and related methods.
>
> NSPanel is a subclass of NSWindow, and one can usually pass 
> subclasses of the declared argument type.


And so my answer was correct.  :)  Creating an NSPanel is creating a 
window.

-Ken