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:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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