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From: garya@garya.Solbourne.COM (Gary Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OSF statements about OPEN LOOK
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.204215.5215@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 20:42:15 GMT
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> Not having pushpins means that you either let the user get annoyed
> or you create an alternative mechanism for keeping dialogs up.
> In Motif this is the difference between the "Ok" button (which takes
> it down) and the "Apply" button, which keeps it up.  You have both
> and the user decides which to select.

However, the "OK" and "Apply" implementation doesn't extend to
dialog boxes with more than two buttons worth a darn.  Consider
the basic dialog box, which has "OK" and "Cancel".  Both take the dialog
box down.  "Apply" was added to mean "OK and don't take it down".

Now consider that there are numerous situations where you have dialog boxes
with more than two buttons.  You need to add 2*(number of buttons-1),
assuming one is a "Cancel", to get the functionality of a single pushpin.


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Gary Aitken

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