Re: button text
Re: button text
- Subject: Re: button text
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 03:33:43 +0200
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 02:23 , Brian Redman 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?
Dismiss,
Acknowledged,
Okay,
Forgive Me,
Permit Me to Try Again,
ESAD,
...?
Gimme a break? Say again? Hastalavista, baby?
Matter of fact, in this case I would consider just beeping and not
allowing to end editing (probably the user would notice); IMHO, the alert
should be shown only after third-or-so attempt.
If the alert is formulated like you said, I guess "OK" is right here: the
user just says "Okay, I'll do that (if you insist)".
Depending on the particular usage though it might be nice if you offered a
generated name ("Foobar#1" if "Foobar" is what user tried, or so), or even
to use the name here and rename the *old* entry. In which cases the button
would contain the appropriate verbs ("Use 'Foobar#1'", "Enter another name"
, "Use 'Foobar' and rename the old entry"...).
---
Ondra Cada
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