11.3.2 A dialog which is window-modal on Cocoa

To create a dialog which is window-modal on Cocoa, call the dialog function inside the macro with-dialog-results as in this example:

(with-dialog-results (symbol okp)

    (prompt-for-symbol

     "Enter a class-name symbol:"

     :ok-check #'(lambda (symbol)

                   (find-class symbol nil)))

  (when okp

    (display-message "symbol is ~S" symbol))
)

On Microsoft Windows, GTK+ and Motif this displays the dialog, calls display-message when the user clicks OK , and then returns. The effect is no different to what you saw in Prompting for Lisp objects.

On Cocoa, this creates a sheet and returns. display-message is called when the user clicks OK . The sheet is window-modal, unlike the sheet you saw in Prompting for Lisp objects.

For more details, see the page for with-dialog-results in the LispWorks CAPI Reference Manual .

CAPI User Guide (Macintosh version) - 30 Aug 2011