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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: User Chosen Alerts (was Re: The Great Alert Contest)
Summary: Some interesting ideas to play with..
Message-ID: <13586@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 16:46:13 GMT
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Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Since we are talking about Alerts and such, we had an interesting idea come up
at recent tech meeting that I thought I would throw out and see if anyone had
any thoughts (pro or con or whatever) about it.

The concept is something I am calling 'User-Chosen Alerts'. What this means is
that each non-error related alert, such as the Save Changes, or Do you want to
Quit?, etc., have two new buttons.  One would read, 'No, and don't bother me 
again' and the other 'Yes, and don't bother me again'. What these would do would
be to basically setup a 'preference' of a sort where there would now be a 
default setting for the alert, and rather than it coming up each time it would
have, it now has a default choice that is handled transparently.  This way you
could setup for a auto-save on close, or a never save on close, for example.

So what do you think??  Good idea, bad idea???  I know the interface and
user interaction parts need work, and suggestions are gratefully accepted, but
I think the concept has merit and maybe we can come up with some new standard
for this new concept in alerts...

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