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cbc

oooooh nice - modal dialog wiggler

I don't know when this feature was added, but I just ran across it.

When a modal dialog is open and you try to do something else (instead of dealing with the dialog), the system wiggles the dialog. Bringing my attention to it to deal with the issue.

Not having modal dialogs might be nicer - but this does a nice job bringing your attention back to what needs to be completed.

thanks!

-cbc

marcel.taeumel

Re: oooooh nice - modal dialog wiggler

cbc wrote

I don't know when this feature was added, but I just ran across it.

When a modal dialog is open and you try to do something else (instead of
dealing with the dialog), the system wiggles the dialog. Bringing my
attention to it to deal with the issue.

Not having modal dialogs might be nicer - but this does a nice job bringing
your attention back to what needs to be completed.

thanks!

-cbc

Hi Chris,

modal dialogs are still rare in Squeak. Especially the list chooser, which now looks like a dialog, can be dismissed/cancelled by clicking anywhere.

Any dialog grabs the keyboard when being opened and can be dismissed with the [ESC] key.

Best,
Marcel

cbc

Re: oooooh nice - modal dialog wiggler

The particular one that caught my attention was closing a debug window where I had written code in the source pane (to finish a process) that I didn't want to save. So, closed the Debug, and went to close other windows that I had used and didn't need - but I got the wiggle instead - asking if I really wanted to discard the changes made in the debugger.

In other words, found one of the rare dialogs. And, yes, esc or return would work - but its nice to be reminded what will be impacted before doing one of those.

-cbc

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:56 AM, marcel.taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

cbc wrote

> I don't know when this feature was added, but I just ran across it.
>
> When a modal dialog is open and you try to do something else (instead of
> dealing with the dialog), the system wiggles the dialog. Bringing my
> attention to it to deal with the issue.
>
> Not having modal dialogs might be nicer - but this does a nice job
> bringing
> your attention back to what needs to be completed.
>
> thanks!
>
> -cbc

Hi Chris,

modal dialogs are still rare in Squeak. Especially the list chooser, which
now looks like a dialog, can be dismissed/cancelled by clicking anywhere.

Any dialog grabs the keyboard when being opened and can be dismissed with
the [ESC] key.

Best,
Marcel

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