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Sheets animation gone?

Daveway

Daveway

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Jul 10, 2004
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I've just noticed that I no longer have the "sheets animation" for dialogue boxes. For example when I would come to save something the dialogue box would "fly" out. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I can still get the box but I miss the animation. It was working a few weeks ago. Could it be 10.3.7 that did this? I've already repaired permissions.
 
I'm running 10.3.7 and I still have the animation. Maybe you accidentally changed a preference somewhere.
 
I'd love to know how you managed to disable it. I'm one of those users for whom function is actually more important than fashion. I didn't like "scroll-out menus" in Windows and I don't much care for the "scroll-out sheets" in MacOS X. When I open a dialog or menu, I actually want it to just "be there", not to use processor cycles and waste my time animating it before I can use it.

So if anyone finds out how to disable it, kindly let me know? Thanks.
 
You sure you didn't mess with the NSWindowResizeTime setting? .20 is the default setting, BTW

In terminal:

Code: 
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .5

will slow it down so you can see the animation.

Personally I use
Code: 
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001

Every time you change this you must restart your application to see the effect. Actually its quite a gag to play on friends. Set it to something like 10 to see what I mean.
 
freiheit said:
I'd love to know how you managed to disable it. I'm one of those users for whom function is actually more important than fashion. I didn't like "scroll-out menus" in Windows and I don't much care for the "scroll-out sheets" in MacOS X. When I open a dialog or menu, I actually want it to just "be there", not to use processor cycles and waste my time animating it before I can use it.

So if anyone finds out how to disable it, kindly let me know? Thanks.
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See my post above. ;)
 
Thanks Kingjr. I did what you suggested and the animation is back to normal. I have no idea how that value could have been changed because I never did anything like that unless it happened when I installed Visage. I've been having alot of fun just changing the value to see how fast and slow it goes. Thanks.

BTW, is there a code to change the defaults for other animations?
 
SuperChuck said:
My thanks, as well, kingjr. I love gratuitous animation.

How exactly does one become familiar with Terminal trickery?
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Years of practice :) I started with Solaris, then AIX, then linux all for work. now OS X for fun.

You could start with a book on OS X or bash shell. But all these cool Apple tricks I find are from MacOSXHints and others are from the Apple developer documentation as I try to learn about writing Cocoa Apps. Maybe I could write them up and add to my own website. Feel free to visit and click on an ad or two for me ;)
 
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