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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Great Standard Yes/No/Cancel Alert Contest
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Date: 8 Sep 89 13:59:15 GMT
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In article <8461@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>This is one of the few cases where I recommend *not* going along with
>the user interface standard.  The dialog as specified contains a
>sentence fragment which is anything but clear to novice users.

Agreed.  Not only that, but it does word wrapping for all but the shortest
file names, and file names too long to fit are not inconceivable.

This would have been a perfect application for an alert box, complete with
warning icon.  Figure 27 in the UI Guidelines seems to indicate that
somebody was aware of this, although the alert presented is poorly 
designed.  Unfortunately, using a proper alert box at this time would be
too confusing.

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