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From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: When to use a _real_ moda
Message-ID: <14458@reed.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 02:49:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <18601@boulder.Colorado.EDU> pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt) writes:
>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.

One possible fix for this problem (?), and only one of many might be to
put a list in the non-modal dialog box with the names of the open &
printable windows/documents if there are multiple windows open.  This
wouldn't be needed most of the time, but if, say, in a word processor,
several open documents, this would be a straight-forward way of telling
the software what you want to print.

BobO
bowman@reed.{bitnet,UUCP,edu}