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Subject:Re: Observation (was: getting info) From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- STARBASECORP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 2 Mar 1995 14:32:16 -0800
from John McD...>
[snip]>
> Sue made an interesting point about the dialog box: yes/no buttons versus a
> "fill in the blank" prompt. It seems to me the problems along this line are
> verbal technical communication problems. This is especially interesting to
> me as I write what is often called "courseware" for lack of a better term.
> Anyway, I can see both sides of Sue's point. (Although I'd love to have
> some dialog boxes physically hit some users in the face...) My favorite
> version of this is the student who picked up her mouse and placed it on the
> video display when told to "place the mouse on the icon".
> Just out of curiosity, Sue, what would you have said had you been the
> programmer?
[snip]
I belive we changed the verbiage rather than the functionality
on that one. Rather than labeling the checkbox "Prompt for check-in
on exit" we used "Run check-in on exit". You see, the programmer
and I both make our living being precise, but in different
languages ;-)
BTW - How 'bout "position the mouse pointer on the icon"??? :-)
Sue Gallagher
StarBase Corp, Irvine CA
sgallagher -at- starbasecorp -dot- com
