Thanks Simon; those are the guidelines I was thinking of. It clearly
states that "..." should be used when "the command needs more
information from the user before the operation executes."
I can still see interpreting this to support using "..." because the
goal of the property menu item is to change properties *of some object*
in the document (or for the document as a whole) and the dialog is
needed to supply the information to do that.
But then one could argue that "setting the properties" is the command
goal, so using the dialog is the purpose of the command and thus "..."
shouldn't be used. I'm inclined toward the latter interpretation.
Simon Fraser wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Manske
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> If anyone has any GUI references that address this issue, I'd like to
>> hear about it.
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> <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-84.htm
> l#HEADING84-0>
>
> Simon
