setting pointer location

[David Vaughan]

On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 15:10 Australia/Sydney, Alan Gayne wrote:

> Happy New Year David,
>
Thanks Alan, hope it is a good one for you.
>
> On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27  PM, David Vaughan wrote:
>
>>  In normal use there is no significant difference between having it 
>> modal or modeless but the latter is a slight advantage to me where 
>> the user can pause to adjust something else, affecting a calculated 
>> field, before completing the dialog fields.
>>
>
> ...and I assume that pause would be the one that "refreshes" (ouch!  
> I'm really show my age with that one!)
... I thought that was Resch's. Are you in Oz?
>
> Seriously though, that's an interesting variation on my tried and true 
> technique.  I've never used a modeless dialog so I'm not sure, but 
> isn't there a "danger" of the dialog getting "lost" behind the main 
> window by the inexperienced user (Hey!  Where'd that thing go?).

I don't think so. It can always be found again by simply clicking in 
the same data (intermediate changes will be lost) or moving windows, as 
people do. I lean away from modality when I can, so the extra buttons 
you discuss strike me as complication on the options already available 
to people.

Also, to keep context, the least experienced user here is me. I gave 
away writing software for others many years ago but I do like to make 
it easy for me rather than inconsistent with other good apps. I do have 
a couple of apps (of which this is one) which I might release as 
shareware one day, after RR2.0 and further refinement.

regards
David
>
>
> Being able to easily create such custom dialogs is one of the things I 
> REALLY like about RunRev.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
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