NSAlert with long text makes buttons inaccessible

Originator:me
Number:rdar://10808413 Date Originated:03-Feb-2012 07:05 PM
Status:Duplicate/4832085 Resolved:
Product:Mac OS X Product Version:10.7.3 (11D50)
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
03-Feb-2012 07:05 PM Jonathon Mah:
Create an alert panel with NSRunCriticalAlertPanel(), [[NSAlert alloc] init], etc., and provide it with long informative text (more than can fit on-screen). When the alert is shown, the text is clipped, but the buttons are positioned below the screen. On a single-display system, the buttons are completely inaccessible.

Expected behavior: The informative text should be clipped enough for the alert panel to be completely contained by the screen's visibleFrame.

The informative text can often come from NSErrors which bubble out of arbitrary methods, which don't / shouldn't need to know the details of the final error presentation.

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