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Subject:Re: Describing menu navigation From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- MARVIN -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:01:39 -0700
Robin Hilp <rolybear -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> writes:
>
> This method seems to work for my engineers & customers:
>
> "Open the Source window Breakpoints menu Set Breakpoint dialog. You
> can add, delete, and edit breakpoints as follows ..." (The Set
> Breakpoint item opens a whole separate dialog.)
>
This brings to mind a sore point I have with GUI terminology: the move
from calling something a "dialog box" to simply calling it a "dialog."
To me, the word "dialog" is an adjective to the type of window it calls
up, not the thing itself.
-- Janice
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