Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 324 (font chooser dialog in tk)

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

Hi Donal,

On 25/11/2008, at 10:18, Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> Daniel A. Steffen wrote:
>> it would also have the advantage to allow future additions to [tk]   
>> with the same [configure/show/hide] style for the color chooser  
>> and  file dialogs that can accommodate the modeless versions of  
>> these on  Mac OS X (the modal versions currently used by Tk are all  
>> legacy and  are likely to go away in the not too distant future).
>
> You've got to continue to support the modal operation for  
> computability
> with Windows, where the dialogs are modal.


oh definitely, but the [configure/show/hide] model can do that as  
shown by the TIP 324 implementation (where the dialog is modal on  
Windows and modeless on Mac OS X).
There is no way that the existing dialog commands like  
[tk_chooseColor] can support a modeless dialog API however, so these  
commands will become inoperative in a future version of Mac OS X Tk  
and we will need an alternative that can support both modal and modeless

Cheers,

Daniel

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