Re: [newbie] Saving text from NSTextView
Re: [newbie] Saving text from NSTextView
- Subject: Re: [newbie] Saving text from NSTextView
- From: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:49:46 -0400
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 02:01 pm, Jeremy Dronfield wrote:
Speaking of GUI and user-friendliness, you might consider using
"Continue"
or similar text on the button. For if I can't save my file, it is
very definitely *not* OK!
Sure, but "OK" is a lot shorter and more button-compatible than "OK, if
you insist you useless machine", which is what "OK" implies in this
context. To my mind, "Continue" implies that either the save is going
to be re-attempted, or some other miraculous process is going to step
in and save the day. A suitable alternative to OK might be "Ah Forget
It", which wouldn't exactly be orthodox HIG.
I agree that "Continue" might be misleading.
The right way to handle an error like this is to give the user more
choices than merely acknowledging the existence of the error. Yes, it's
going to be lots more programming work, but the right way would be to
allow the user to retry doing the save after he/she fixes the problem.
Or to cancel the whole operation - which might mean rolling back
previous sub-parts of the operation - e.g. if file1 was able to be saved
but file2 failed.
--
Cameron Hayne (email@hidden)
Hayne of Tintagel
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