On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:18:10PM -0700, Andy Kopciuch wrote:
> On Saturday 08 December 2001 19:04, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 06:00:56PM -0500, Paul Kincaid wrote:
> > > I'm looking for a way that if you select "Exit" from the Blackbox Menu
> > > that you are prompted to exit rather than it just killing everything and
> > > kicking me out to the console. You don't know how many times I have
> > > accidentially exited, killing everything that I was doing....
> >
> > I've always had something such as:
> >
> > [submenu] (Quit!) {Really quit?}
> > [restart] (Restart Blackbox)
> > [exit] (Quit Blackbox)
> > [end]
> >
> > Just to make it slightly harder to accidentally quit.
>
> Nice. That does work, but it is a hack to something that I think should be
> in blackbox. It is pretty a standard programming practise to prompt the user
> before something like this, in my experience anyway.
>
> >From my brief knowledge of the code base, I don't think it would be very hard
> to implement a user prompt in the shutdown() method.
Make sure there is still a way to exit without confirmation. Adding a menu
function like 'exitconfirm' and making it the default might be appropriate.
[exitconfirm] (Quit Blackbox)
[end]
People who don't want confirmation can edit the menu and make it [exit].
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Joshua Swink
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