On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 15:10 Australia/Sydney, Alan Gayne wrote:
Happy New Year David,
Thanks Alan, hope it is a good one for you.
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27 PM, David Vaughan wrote:In normal use there is no significant difference between having it modal or modeless but the latter is a slight advantage to me where the user can pause to adjust something else, affecting a calculated field, before completing the dialog fields....and I assume that pause would be the one that "refreshes" (ouch! I'm really show my age with that one!)
... I thought that was Resch's. Are you in Oz?
I don't think so. It can always be found again by simply clicking in the same data (intermediate changes will be lost) or moving windows, as people do. I lean away from modality when I can, so the extra buttons you discuss strike me as complication on the options already available to people.
Seriously though, that's an interesting variation on my tried and true technique. I've never used a modeless dialog so I'm not sure, but isn't there a "danger" of the dialog getting "lost" behind the main window by the inexperienced user (Hey! Where'd that thing go?).
Also, to keep context, the least experienced user here is me. I gave away writing software for others many years ago but I do like to make it easy for me rather than inconsistent with other good apps. I do have a couple of apps (of which this is one) which I might release as shareware one day, after RR2.0 and further refinement.
regards
David
Being able to easily create such custom dialogs is one of the things I REALLY like about RunRev.
Regards,
Alan
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