Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visix!amanda
From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: HIGs, Modal Dialogs and Command Key equivalences
Message-ID: <truaudhuja@visix.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 18:40:01 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.114610.2427@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
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In article <1990Oct12.114610.2427@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
b_murphy@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>What do *you* think?

Don't use modal dialogs.

I'm fairly serious--most modal dialogs could be replaced with modeless
ones.  For those very few that can't, interpreting the command keys
and the Edit menu is a reasonable compromise.

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