The only disadvantage of Yes/No dialog buttons is that if the buttons
themselves are descriptive, than users don't need to read the dialog
text. So as a rule, I've been trying to avoid Yes/Not buttons in
dialogs on the Desktop. (Although admittedly, the message you have is
pretty short.)
On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Title: Save Changes
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Please save changes or your edits will be lost.
[Ignore Edits] [Save Edits]
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How about simply…
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Title: Save Changes?
Save changes?
[No] [Yes]
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Looking back at what I wrote, I realized I don't like error
messages that make it seem like it's the users fault.
Should we pop this up as soon as the user clicks down on the
calendar canvas?
Whoops, I think that's what I meant to say, 'before the user is
able to move the lozenge'.
So as not to confuse it with the change the user is making by
dragging the event lozenge around?
That's correct. So to confirm, when a user is in the middle of
filling out the event details then clicks away, this error dialog
will appear.
-Priscilla
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