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From: kk@mcnc.org (Krzysztof Kozminski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Great Standard Yes/No/Cancel Alert Contest
Message-ID: <1370@speedy.mcnc.org>
Date: 12 Sep 89 12:39:14 GMT
References: <24871@santra.UUCP> <8461@hoptoad.uucp> <25123@santra.UUCP> <8502@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: kk@mcnc.org.UUCP (Krzysztof Kozminski)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <8502@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>By the way, someone (David?) said that the IM-4 specification had been
>replaced by another, and alert box with "save, Discard, Cancel", but I
>can't find anywhere that's specified.  The "Human Interface Guidelines"
>book from Addison-Wesley has essentially the same dialogs as IM-4,
>except that it says "save changes before closing/quitting?" with no
>file name.

Funny, I remember doing my alert boxes accordingly to the specs and they
do say "save, discard, cancel".  But I can't find these in the IM either.

BTW, I find it useful to include one more button: 'save as', for those
occasions whent quitting is done in panic and the user doesn't really want
to overwrite an existing file but would like to save the results anyway.

KK
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Kris Kozminski   kk@mcnc.org
"The party was a masquerade; the guests were all wearing their faces."