To open a sheet you need to have two things, the window the sheet will be attached to and the window that’s the sheet’s contents.

To open the sheet:

[NSApp beginSheet:aSheet modalForWindow:aWindow modalDelegate:aWindow didEndSelector:nil contextInfo:nil];

Where aSheet is the sheet you want to display and aWindow is the window it will be attached to.

To close the sheet:

[NSApp endSheet:aSheet]; [aSheet orderOut:nil];

Where aSheet is the sheet.

The usage of sheets is described in Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines.

– MatPeterson