Re: v0.84: alert bug

Richard Kent (kent@hydra.dra.hmg.gb)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:14:37 -0000

To subscribers of the xforms list from "Richard Kent" <kent@hydra.dra.hmg.gb> :

> Alternate behaviors could be:
>
> 1) replace the old alert window by the new one (I don't
> like that, because in some cases an important message in
> the first alert window may disapear before the user could read
> it and acknowledge).
>
> 2) stack-up alert windows (like Netscape does)
>
> 3) fl_show_alert() would block if the previous alert window
> was not closed by the user.
>
> (3) is better than (1), but I would prefer (2).

I agree that the current alert method is annoying - perhaps there should be two
different goodies (or add a flag to determine behaviour).

fl_show_alert - simply an alert box for warnings - doesn't block and stacks up
like those alert windows in Netscape.

fl_show_error - used for more important, actual error messages (not warnings)
and blocks until the user clicks OK. This, I reckon, would be highly useful for
"proper" errors which are caught by the program.

What do you think ?

TicH

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