Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
- From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:21:34 +0200
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 07:10 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
Problem:
You want a dialog to have a standard alert sheet/dialog to have a OK
and Cancel button.
You want the Cancel button to be the default button.
You don't want to have a Windows-like interface like in iCal when you
delete a Calendar (i.e. the OK button is on the left, the Cancel
button on the right).
Question:
How can you do this with the standard Alert Sheet/Dialog APIs?
I would not make Cancel the default, even for "dangerous" operations. I
don't know about iCal, but in Mail, if you delete a Mailbox (a pretty
radical operation), Delete is the default, as it should IMHO.
I think it will only confuse everybody if the default is sometimes
cancel, sometimes confirm, in and across applications.
If you really insist, then:
- at least, please do not name your button Cancel, and,
- another possibility could be, be to have a 3-button confirmation
panel: the default button would be to get help or more information, and
the others for confirm/cancel, probably with cancel in the middle.
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.sente.ch
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