Re: drawer attached to modal window is unresponsive

FROM : Steve Christensen
DATE : Fri May 30 23:15:54 2008

I dumped the items in the drawer so they wouldn't take up real estate 
unless needed since they can be on the bulky side. I ended up 
scrapping the drawer and just putting the items in the window itself. 
Bigger window but fewer issues.

Thanks...
steve


On May 30, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

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>
> 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