[andlabs]

Note: since writing that article I have now started, and am now mostly finished with, this rewrite, having only one last ink to work on... dialog boxes. This was always a big disaster ecause every OS has a wildly different model, and now I'm sitting on a Stack Overflow question related to Cocoa thinking if I should just force all dialogs to be application modal but then need a way to make them always on top on all platforms...

[shaunxcode]

I am curious to know if you spent any time studying the eXene (http://alleystoughton.us/eXene/future.pdf) approach? I ask because it is the an ML CSP informed UI toolkit. If so how would you contrast that with your current (new api) approach?

[dimsuz]

Interesting project. Looks like it's somewhat stalled, do you know anything about its current state/plans?

[grey-area]

Have you looked at setLevel on NSWindow?

[dialog setLevel:NSStatusWindowLevel];

It's probably not a viable solution long-term because users will expect more Mac OS X-like behaviour and non-modal dialogs, but it would help you do what you want I think.

[andlabs]

Actually OS X is the only system that guarantees application-modal dialog boxes stay always on top; it's the other platforms that I would need to worry about.

[grey-area]

ah ok, sorry I misunderstood.