In most cases if a Cancel button is offered then always use it to cancel. The “X” has always been the same as a OK and I think it is the baseline in the use of the Windows API.
I teach Computer classes and I teach that if you want to Cancel, do NOT use the “X”, but the Cancel button. I have never received a complaint about the “Cancel” button, but I have with the “X”. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <http://www.schmeckabernathy.com/> http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Using "x" to exit/cancel - bug? In testing using "est" in dates (where "est" is not in the valid list in Help), I discovered a follow-up to an old thread (Nov 2010) about the modified date. The problem noted was that if you clicked the "x" to get out of the Edit Indiv. screen, the modified date was updated. The (imo blunt) reply was "of course it did... click cancel..." - end of thread. However, what I noticed was that if you entered data and decide not to save it and click "x" to get out, not only is the modified date updated, but the new data is also saved. I don't think that is the way it should be. IMO, clicking the "x" to get out of something (escape out of something) is pretty standard that you do NOT want it saved. The converse argument could be "If I'd wanted to save it, I would've clicked "Save." " I think the program should notice whether or not changes were made, then (a) if no changes, don't update modified date, and (b) if changes were made, ask if they want to save them (and update modified date if they do). Sherry or Brian, what do you think? What was the intent in putting the "x" there instead of forcing a conscious choice of what to do upon exiting? Am I so far off base? Thanks, --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
