User is able to close a document while modal dialog is showing

Photoshop
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The user is able to close a document by clicking the “x” button while a modal dialog is showing. Full disclosure: I am showing the dialog with dialog.uxpShowModal() because I like having the text in the title bar. ( PS 27.1.0 release, OSX Sonoma 14.4.1 )

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Do you have that call inside an executeAsModal context?

Otherwise, try the (should be documented but probably isn’t yet) option:
{lockDocumentFocus: true}

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I have also seen this ability to interact with PS while modal (clicking document tabs). Sometimes you have to click aggressively / repeatedly. Document switches are the cause of a large number of modal fails / race conditions I have seen over the year (less so these days as I have build a lot of defensive code).

That lockDocumentFocus sounds interesting. Is there a way to lock / unlock inside a modal if you want to add some protection but will also need to switch documents within that modal?

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Which version was that added in, please?

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Yes, the call is inside executeAsModal and yes lockDocumentFocus works! Thank you!

On a related note I feel like the user shouldn’t be able to pan the document with a trackpad either since the scrollbars are non responsive and zoom with trackpad is nonresponsive.

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Speaking of documentation, I can’t find any adobe doc that mentions uxpShowModal() at all. Why is the current/future implementation showModal() with no options?

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I would say that it should be usable all the way back to Ps 2022 (23.0). Apparently, it slipped through the cracks for documentation.