J. Landman Gay wrote:
Shao Sean wrote:
what was wrong with it?
It used to be styled as a palette instead of a document window
I guess I must have known that, but it left the building. Anyway,
modeless windows look just like toplevel windows now. The only
difference I can see is that you lose the asterisk after the stack name.
On XP? In Rev 4?
This has been a concern of mine as well, so I just tested it here and I
got what I've always got, what Sean reported: modeless has an
appearance almost identical to palettes, with shorter drag bar than
normal, no window menu, just a small closebox without other window
trimmings, and the title is drawn almost flush left in the title region,
with almost no margin.
Recipe:
1. Create a new stack
2. Run this in the Message Box:
set the style of this stack to modeless
No changes to decorations, no other steps needed. Very odd, almost
certainly a long-overlooked bug.
It's a drag because modeless windows would otherwise provide a great way
to have auxiliary windows with normal layering which are not documents,
leaving toplevel for document use. Such an arrangement can simplify a
lot of coding in a document-based app, and is exactly what modeless
windows provide on Mac.
But because of this weird palette-looking appearance thing, I can't rely
on modeless for any of my cross-platform apps.
I did a brief search in the RQCC for this, and while I found a few
loosely related things nothing reporting this specific rendering anomaly.
Anyone here know if such a report has been filed? URL?
--
Richard Gaskin
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