dialogs comming from the window title

[popey.marin]

Hello
Which class should I use to have a dialogue that comes out from the title barre of a window like the save or the open dialogue (sorry, I don't rememeber the name of that kind of dialogue) ?
How can I define the items in this dialgue whith Interface Builder ?

Thank you for your answers

 

[VGZ]

Those are sheets. You might try searching for "sheets" in the IB help or the Dev documentation. I haven't messed around with the IB long enough to tell you for sure but you probably have to add a sheet object to a window.

Any one else know of any good sources of info for learning to use IB?

 

[proceedNeXT]

You have to invoke it programaticly. Currently Sheets are Cocoa-only. You can do it by [NSApp runModal:sheetname forWindow:windowname ...] or something like that. look at apple's Documentation on NSApplication. Hope this helps you.

 

[VGZ]

Actually I just noticed that Carbon apps can use sheets. Sherlock uses a sheet for errors, the Finder uses a sheet for the goto field. If I find anymore examples of this I'll post them.

Here's another question though, when you use the command to create the sheet how do you edit the interface?

 

[proceedNeXT]

You use the command in the moment you want to get the sheet.

- (void)beginSheetNSWindow *)sheet
modalForWindowNSWindow *)docWindow
modalDelegateid)modalDelegate
didEndSelectorSEL)didEndSelector
contextInfovoid *)contextInfo

sheet can be a window you created in Interface Builder
docWindow is the window showing the sheet
[modalDelegate didEndSelector] is invoked when the sheet ends
contextInfo don't know it myself

So lets say you have two windows: window1 and window2.
When you want to run window1 as a sheet for window2, you would type
[NSApp beginSheet:window1 modalForWindow:window2 modalDelegate:nil didEndSelector:nil contextInfo:nil];
I haven't tried if this functions with all the nils.

 

[popey.marin]

Thank you for all your replys.
I've tried the beginSheet and endSheet in my java program, it works fine.
But I'd like to focus on the fact that I had to use a NSPanel in IB to create the sheet : whith a NSWindow, the sheet appears in the center of the screen, and don't roll out of anywhere.