Re: Display dialog frontmost?
Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- Subject: Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- From: bill fancher <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:29:28 -0700
A twofer.
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 09:47 PM, John W Baxter wrote:
At 18:22 -0700 9/12/2002, bill fancher wrote:
Sometimes it makes perfect sense to put up a dialog over whatever
application happens to be in front.
When?
When it's early in a script the user starts by hand and expects to run
to
completion while she's paying attention?
I'd contemplated adding the qualifier that doing stuff in more or less
direct response to user actions isn't likely to interrupt something the
user is doing because the user hasn't had a chance to start doing
something else yet so that's OK, but decided it ruined the svelte lines
of my one word query. More importantly, it didn't seem germane, since
we weren't discussing responses to user actions.
But yeah.
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 06:51 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
On 13/9/02 11:22 AM +1000, bill fancher, email@hidden, wrote:
I'll be the judge of what constitutes "farting around" here in my
little kingdom. I don't want some presumptuous software deciding for
me.
Then don't run an OS.
?
There's little more irritating than having a dialog shoved in your
face
when you're doing something MORE IMPORTANT (I'll be the judge of that
too, thank you.)
But you may well be a bad judge. For example, if the script is doing
something that also involves the application you have frontmost, and
you
decide to ignore the bouncing icon, you could end up doing something
that
breaks the script. You may consider that your right, but the script's
ceding
it to you is not very helpful.
I'm having trouble picturing this. Could you give a concrete example?
The only things I can come up with involve bad design.
The reality is that when a script is running, you have potentially two
entities telling the computer what to do at the same time.
Sure, but you don't want to wrestle your software for control of the UI.
Sometimes common sense matters more than manners.
Sometimes. Usually rudeness is just lack of consideration for others
rather than a child of necessity.
display dialog "Emergency! The world is ending today!" giving up after
weeks
That should take care of the timeouts.
It will do no such thing...
Not sure what you mean.
--bill
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