Re: Re: Modal Dialogs/Windows

Daniel-Marian Baboiu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Jernej Simončič wrote:
> 
> Don't confuse system-modal and application-modal. All MessageBox-es
> are modal windows - and you can have several on screen at any time.
> Common Dialog Boxes (Open, save, color, printer setup...) are modal,
> too...

All I'm saying is that MS allows too much with system-modal. Two years
ago I was able to lock my computer in a very deterministic way by
provoking certain error messages (I think one was to pull the phone jack
to generate internet error). System-modal should not be used at all.

DMB
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