Re: How to know a file is writeable?
Re: How to know a file is writeable?
- Subject: Re: How to know a file is writeable?
- From: Andy Armstrong <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:52:07 +0000
On 25 Feb 2005, at 16:18, Steve Bird wrote:
To which my immediate question is: "Then why did you let me click on
the button? After all, you knew I couldn't do that before I did!"
The situation described is completely different though - the point is
that the application /doesn't/ know and in fact can't know so the only
thing to do is indicate in the UI that the thing you want to do might
not be possible but to let you try it anyway.
I'd far rather use an application that tries to advise me of the
situation to the best of its abilities and then fails gracefully if
what I insist on doing turns out to be impossible than one that flatly
refuses to allow me to do something that /might/ be possible.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
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