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From: phil@goldhill.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: help (with a popup prompt design)
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Date: 22 Aug 89 13:45:09 GMT
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There are cases where the user should not be allowed to do anything except
respond to the popup. I have popup's that block all input in the case when
a malloc has failed - the popup is to notify the user that such a condition
has arisen and inform them that cleanup is about to occur and that a "safe"
state in the application is to be returned to.

I also have popups that don't block all other processing and are "well
behaved" with respect to other users of the server.

The fact that conditions arise with varying degrees of severity indicates
that atleast two types of popups are needed and should be planned for
when building and designing the UI for an application. 

Phil Stanhope                                       
Gold Hill Computers, Inc.                           
Cambridge, MA.                                      
phil@goldhill.com