Re: Alert Sheets hard wired in Interface Builder

FROM : Scott Ribe
DATE : Thu May 29 05:29:05 2008

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


Probably because it involves the run loop and event dispatch, since the
running a window as a sheet must ensure that the window to which the sheet
is attached does not receive events, yet a click in that parent window must
bring the pair forward... Further, I'll bet it's also there because the
method to run a window application-modally was there first. So if you think
about what the method must *really* do, it no longer appears to be so bound
to the window, because it requires doing things that are clearly not the
responsibility of the window. Yes, the method could be in NSWindow and call
on NSApplication to get that done, but, should a window really be able to
have such a drastic effect on the events going to other windows???

But I had the same difficulty as everybody else locating it the first time.
And then again, later, when I had not used it for a while ;-)

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