Re: drawer attached to modal window is unresponsive

FROM : Andrew Merenbach
DATE : Fri May 30 22:16:53 2008

Hi, Steve!

My experience is that drawers have always been buggy -- and drawers 
have had issues with Garbage Collection, too, under Leopard (although 
I haven't tested any drawers in a GC app since I upgraded from 10.5.2 
to to 10.5.3 the other day).

Also, I've read on this list that drawers confuse people, and *some* 
might even call them poor UI.  There are alternatives for some 
situations, in my opinion, such as child/parent window pairings, 
inspector utility windows, and controls in toolbars.

That said, I don't have an exact answer for your main issue -- I think 
that someone else will likely have one that will solve it -- but in 
response to your last question, I would personally give up on the 
drawer.  They've been nothing but trouble -- which is perhaps why 
Apple has all but dumped them in their own programs -- Mail.app's 
sidebar, for instance, is now a source list in the main window, 
instead of being in a drawer.

Cheers,
   Andrew

On May 30, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Steve Christensen wrote:

> I'm working on a plugin that needs to do some involved setup, and 
> I'm handling this in a modal window since the setup has to be done 
> in an atomic fashion. The window also has an attached drawer. What 
> I'm finding is that I can open and close the drawer, and a table 
> view in the drawer will scroll if I move a scroll wheel while the 
> mouse is over the table, but if I click on any of the controls in 
> the drawer, I just hear a beep instead of having something useful 
> happen.
>
> Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to allow the drawer to 
> process user events or should I give up on the drawer?
>
> steve
>
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