Re: button text
Re: button text
- Subject: Re: button text
- From: Brian Redman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:02:34 -0400
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 08:39 PM, David Remahl wrote:
Having read the button discussions I'm now trying to "correctly" title
a button. A user types in a name which is not permitted because it
already exists. So I run an alert from a textShouldEndEditing method.
When the user clicks the alert button they're supposed the fix the
name.
NSRunAlertPanel(@"Name already in use",
@"Please choose a name you are not
using for another entry.",
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
Are saying it's okay not to use a verb here or are you saying OK is a
verb in this context?
ber
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