Re: button text
Re: button text
- Subject: Re: button text
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:39:02 +0200
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Having read the button discussions I'm now trying to "correctly" title
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a button. A user types in a name which is not permitted because it
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already exists. So I run an alert from a textShouldEndEditing method.
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When the user clicks the alert button they're supposed the fix the name.
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NSRunAlertPanel(@"Name already in use",
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@"Please choose a name you are not
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using for another entry.",
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What should the button label be?
"OK". Quite simply.
Generally, one should choose a verb for the button title. In the example of
a harddrive initialization, then "Format" would be a good title for the
default button. This is infinitely better than the Windows practice (and
some Unix-UI's too) of using YES/NO for button titles, requiring the user to
read the (often lengthy) text.
/ Rgds, David
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