On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:04:04 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Sounds like
QuestionDlg
> 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.
Example:
QuestionDlg('File has changed. Save
Changes?',mtError,[mrYes,mrCancel,'Cancel now',mrIgnore,300,'Sophisticated
Save'],0);
Mattias
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