Le 14 mai 07 à 02:34 Matin, Craig A. Finseth a écrit:

> No, I am not using it as a document window.  It is a sheet window
> _within_ a document window.  The idea is to close the sheet.

Normally, a sheet must be closed using a push button. It should be  
considered a modal dialog, involving a question or a choice.

> There is a Close button in the window.

In the parent, yes.

> The issue here is that users have been trained (by Apple) to use the
> red close button in the title bar rather than a close button in the
> window.

Not for a modal dialog (which a sheet is).
When you open the prefs in iTunes, you don't close the window by the  
close button, same for a save as dialog (even as a sheet).

> In this case, the users are (attempting to) close the sheet window
> (but not the document window) by clicking the red close button in the
> title bar.  Of course, it is not active, so they are complaining
> (rightly, IMHO) about the inconsistent interface.

As said earlier, a sheet window is modal. Have you ever seen a sheet  
window without a push button?

> In the mean time, there is a Close button in the sheet window, and it
> closes the sheet.  There is also a Close menu item (with shortcut),
> which also closes the sheet. That's two of the three (or three of the
> four, depending upon how you count) of the "normal" ways to close a
> window.  However, the most commonly used on (in this context) is
> missing.

Because it should not be there.
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