On 16 Jun '08, at 4:38 PM, Matthew Youney wrote:
I am creating an application that requires multiple “modal” windows. Thereis a “main” window, and there are multiple other windows that can bedisplayed from the main window (using a toolbar, buttons, etc.). These “other” windows need to be modal, that is these windows must receive alluser input, and be closed before returning to the “main” window.
Do you have any influence over the UI of this app, or was it dictated by someone else? I ask because this sounds like a bad UI design to me — modal windows should be avoided whenever possible, because they constrain what the user can do (and can confuse novice users, especially.)
For example, in this design you can never have more than one of those windows open at once. That would be pretty annoying if someone needed to do something that required going back and forth between them. I don't know what they do, but I can imagine being halfway through finishing with one window, and needing to look up a value from another window, but not being able to do so without canceling the current window and losing progress...
Is there a fundamental reason why those windows couldn't be enabled at once? Or why you couldn't put all of this UI into a single window, using something like an tab-view to switch between them?
I would think that this is a common application architecture (it is to me)
You may be coming from another platform? I can't think of any Mac apps that do this, and frankly, I wouldn't want to use one that did.
—Jens
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