Hi,
I think that in general, you can not force people to read or even think
if they do not want do it. Usually when the computer crashes two or
three times then they start worying... This is human nature.
One idea would be to randomly change the position of the buttons or the
question, size of the form, etc...
Alain
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 17:04 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexsander Rosa wrote:
>
> > After years of development with this kind of dialog box (with a
> > caption, a message ending with a question and buttons labeled Yes, No,
> > Cancel etc), I've noticed than most non-tech users actually do not
> > READ the message, they just read the labels of the buttons and click
> > Yes or No (rarely Cancel), almost automatically - no thinking at all.
> >
> > I did some GUI and usability research and found that many experts
> > suggest that the labels of the buttons should state the action that
> > will be performed. IIRC, Open Office dot Org does that: when you try
> > to exit when the text has changed, instead of the classic "Save
> > changes?" (Yes, No, Cancel) it says something like: "There are
> > changes." (Save, Discard, Cancel). The experience shows that users
> > read the buttons, not the message.
> >
> > Of course it's simple to write such a dialog box, but it would be nice
> > to have it as a built-in feature, to educate new developers and create
> > a standard. This would also solve this language problem, as most text
> > would be provided - except, maybe, "Cancel", that could be defined
> > globally somewhere or at least have a default text.
>
> I think this can be easily implemented as an overloaded form of
> MessageDLG, where instead of [mbOK,mbCancel] you pass the captions of
> the buttons.
>
> MessageDLg('File has changed. Save Changes?',MB_WARNING,['&Save','&Don''t
> save','&Cancel'],0)
>
> The first button is the default button, and the function returns the index of
> the pushed button, or -1 if the dialog was closed by closing the window.
>
> Michael.
>
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