Are there any consequences if you have Chandler docked? Where would
the alarm dialog go?
On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
Hi, If I understand the point, I would agree completely. For
example, it
was quite awhile before I realized that my nine collections were all
restoring at once with the nine dialog boxes stacked on top of one
another. Without realizing that, the one visible dialog box
erroneously
suggested extremely slow performance for the restore of one
collection.
Even if restore settings is replaced/removed, I believe this is
the same
UI point.
Yes. And to clarify my earlier point, anyone who does not run Chandler
maximized to the whole display will find it disconcerting to see the
dialogs popping away from where they are focusing their attention.
But I also realized CenterOnParent() would not help in your scenario,
because the dialogs would just stack on top of each other, albeit all
centered on Chandler. Dialogs should center on Chandler, except when
there already is such a window their placement should cascade. I
wonder
if Center() method does that, or would they cascade automatically
if you
didn't call anything?
Yes, I think stacking dialogs directly on top of one another could be
a pretty serious usability problem, depending on what's getting
stacked. Is this something worth investigating?
Mimi
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