Did a google search with "windows hig". Didn't find anything relevant.
But what I do in an edit-record type form, (built in another language for Windows) is place the following 3 buttons at the bottom right of the form: Save and Close, Save and New, Close The first 2 buttons are disabled at opening of the form. When the user starts editing values on the form (changing field values), I then set a variable to TRUE. If this variable is TRUE, then the first 2 buttons become enabled. The text on the Close button is changed to Cancel. First up, this is a visual sign to the user that they need to respond to the system, because they changed values. (a somewhat push/pull affect) If they press Escape of click Cancel on the edit form, they are prompted in a dialog box to: save the changes by clicking Yes, exit without saving changes by clicking No, or they can click Cancel on the dialog box which returns them to the edit-record form. This last option allows the user to continue editing the record detail. Choosing No, loses all changes and closes the form. Regards, Mark stuart Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Mark Wieder wrote: > >>> The Mac allows visual feedback to the user that a window needs to be >>> saved by changing the red (left most) icon with a dark dot in it. I >>> don't >>> know if Windows or Linux do the same thing. >>> >>> How do I give this indication to the user? Is there a property in Rev >>> to >>> do this? >> >> I've been known to change a field border color to red as an indicator... > > In the olden days some Mac apps used an asterisk after the window's > title to indicate unsaved changes. I've been doing the same here, and > have had no complaints (though I sure wouldn't mind a fully HIG-savvy > way to do this). > > BTW: What does the Win HIG recommend for indicating unsaved changes? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Managing Editor, revJournal > _______________________________________________________ > Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-indicate-window-needs-saving-tp16179633p16191745.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
