CANCEL changes -- next option of CANCEL not intuitive

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Nov 23 07:02:19 PST 2014


> On Nov 22, 2014, at 11:18 PM, Steve Butler <kg7je at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/22/2014 10:52 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> I’d appreciate if you could play with the dialogs and see if you can trip them up into something stupid. I allowed multiple file selection (I think). You can enter file names that don’t exist. Etc. It would be good to make sure that none of this causes more issues. Thanks /D 
> 
> Not sure if this in "stupid" but it isn't intuitive.  Start to change a dive.  Then hit CANCEL.  This pops a dialogue box with two options:
> 1.  Close without saving.
> 2.  Cancel
> 
> Hmm.  Since I pressed Cancel should I keep going down that path (introspective question).  I'm not really "Closing" anything.  I think it is the wording that struck me as odd.
> 
> Since the description in the box above the two buttons is "You are about to discard your changes" perhaps the two buttons should be:
> 1. Discard changes.
> 2. Keep Changes.
> 
> Note, pressing CANCEL after pressing CANCEL does indeed CANCEL the CANCEL.  And if you followed that on the first pass -- well, I'm needing to head to bed on this thought!

You’re making a good point. I’ll modify the wording.

/D


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