There are times when it is necessary to protect the user from themselves. Modal to a particular window can be a VERY good thing.
Several years ago, I remember watching in horror as my chairman was tinkering with a UI I had created that was not sufficiently modal, and he was at extreme risk of losing a lot of "work" as a result. You had to be there... BTW, he's a great guy and would have put it down to a learning experience for us both, not to mention a major bug report. I promptly made it modal, and all was well for years after that. Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] on behalf of Stéphane Ducasse [stephane.duca...@inria.fr] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 9:12 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Progress bar in the top left I meant modal. > Since when? > > Rule #1 of UI: never block UI. > Because if you do, then we have no right to call it UI. > > do you know why we need this panic button (Alt-.) in our images? > Exactly because every silly thing prefers to block UI at any point, > even if it doesn't necessary. stef
