Re: Alert Sheets hard wired in Interface Builder

FROM : Graham Cox
DATE : Wed May 28 06:24:17 2008

I agree with your assessment. What business has NSApplication 
providing this method? it doesn't make sense.

Easy to fix with a category though.

G.



On 28 May 2008, at 2:06 pm, Jens Alfke wrote:

>
> On 27 May '08, at 1:40 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>

>> You're looking for +[NSApplication
>> beginSheet:modalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:],

>
> I'm not surprised the OP didn't find this … it's my candidate for 
> Most Misplaced Cocoa Method. I've always wondered why this isn't an 
> instance method on NSWindow, to be sent either to the sheet window
>     - (void) 
> beginSheetModalForWindow:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:
> or to the host window
>     - (void) beginSheet:modalDelegate:didEndSelector:contextInfo:
>
> This is an instance [sic] of an OOP design error wherein a 
> particular class method that takes an object as a parameter should 
> be changed into an instance method on that object.
>
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