rickbking@comcast.net writes:
First, I want to say that this idea is brilliant - still
provide popups but not the annoying click on Ok. I'm
definitely going to incorporate this in my project.
Some things to consider:
+ If you don't provide a button to close the window, your
program won't know if your user even saw the message.
+ Some users may get annoyed if you don't provide a way for them
to explicitly shut the window.
+ You still don't want to get in the way of the user.
So... I'd look at writing one-liners into the status bar, and
for longer or more important messages, make a transient window
pop up from the status bar, and stay up for x seconds or until
the user commands it to go away, or until the next transient
window wants to pop up.
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Paul McNett
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