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  • Subject: Re: (no subject)Thatinteract with alerts
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:06:49 +1100

On 20/10/2011, at 8:54 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:

> Actually, alerts only have one button.  As they were originally defined, a dialog had at least two buttons.

Alerts can have more than one button. But what I was trying to say was that the distinction was meaningless in the original context.

> I'm jumping back to Apple's HUI guidelines from 1990, where I read this.

The current guidelines say, in part: "An alert is a special type of dialog".

I wonder if the OP was really trying to distinguish between modal dialogs and non-modal dialogs.

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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>

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