Xojo Modal Window

General Programming
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Seems on MacOS, even the Movable Modal still allows interaction with the main window. Is there a setting or something that allows for a true modal on MacOS? Seems to me a msgbox on MacOS is modal, so I think it must be possible?

2

Besides setting the window type to MovableModal to get node behavior you have to display the window using:
theWindow.ShowModal
NOT:
theWindow.Show

-Karen

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For those of you who might be interested… Here is a peek as to why this is necessary… as Show, ShowModal and ShowModalWithin all react differently.

I recently created a NSWindow subclass (for use with Swift), and here is what I came up with for each of those functions…

    public final func show() {
		makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil)
	}

	public final func showModal() {
		makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil)
		NSApp.runModal(for:self)  //<- this is the key difference
	}

	public final func showModalWithin(_ parent:DSWindow?) {
		parent!.beginSheet(self, completionHandler: nil)
	}
4

Thank you, Karen. If that’s in the docs I must have missed it!
Does that mean that any window can be made modal by launching it that way?

5

only “sort of”
while you can do that you might find they do not react as expected when you do that

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