RE: A New Keyhole Type!

"White Wolf" <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:07:01 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.programming.keyholes
Message-ID	<20050825190705.XEAF27547.fep06-app.kolumbus.fi@EVO>

software-keyholes-bounces-xIg/pKzrS18HpDbxM/[email protected] wrote:
[SNIP]
> modal dialogs in the first place. I don't think anyone
> disputs that modal dialogs are over-used and abused, as has
> been pointed out for years. But it seems to me that Microsoft
> development tools just encourage this practice.

I guess MS does nowadays what it usually does: innovate first in the
Office. :-)  If you look at the Office 2003 (that is what I have) there
are less and less dialog boxes.  They are transferring the work into
"sidebars", which are basically docked modeless dialogs.  I guess the
larger and larger screen resolutions (screen real-esate) drives away
dialogs into that direction?  Who knows.

Attila