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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: When to use a _real_ moda
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Date: 19 Mar 90 23:21:43 GMT
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In article <10853@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>
>A modeless dialog can configure a modal operation perfectly well.  The
>dialog comes up, but the operation doesn't happen until you click the
>equivalent of the OK button.  If you give the same command again (e.g.,
>Print or Open) before clicking OK or getting rid of the window, then
>the window simply comes to the front.  This would work perfectly well
>for both the Print dialogs and the Standard File dialogs, if the people

OK, explain this further.  Suppose you bring the modeless print dialog
in front of a window that that can't be printed.  Do you dim the OK
button?  Does this kind of modelessness really help the user, or does
it simply clutter the desktop?  Would it be clear to most users that
the modeless print window operates on the next window down?  No flames
please, just discussion.

Jonathan


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