[GUI] More points for the technical discussion

Nick Name nick.name@inwind.it
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:47:11 +0100


On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:09:53 +0100
Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net> wrote:

>  Why shouldn't we just define a function which has the captions of the
>  Yes and the No button directly as arguments? An example application
>  of it could be
>      dialogYesNoCancel "Save" "Don't save" <other arguments>
>  which would name the buttons "Save", "Don't save" and "Cancel" on the
>  Mac and "Yes", "No" and "Cancel" on a PC running Windows or KDE
>  (:-)).

Yes, then we just don't have a YesNoCancel dialog ;) It would be a
generic dialog. I don't see problems however. 

So it seems that apple hasn't got a yesnocancel dialog. How do they
costraint the programmer to put "cancel" on the left ? Is it just a
convention?

Vincenzo

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