Dialogs are the main means of communication between the program and the user. They are used to set various components and properties of the program. The dialogs also provide information. ConceptDraw has two types of dialogs:
Modal Dialogs
Floating Dialogs
These dialogs are mostly called from the menus, or by using the keyboard shortcuts. While this dialog is open, you can't work with other dialogs or tools. As a rule, modal dialogs have several standard buttons:
OK - closes the dialog and applies the changes.
Cancel - closes the dialog without applying the changes.
Apply - applies the changes without closing the dialog.
Help (?) - displays context help.
The settings are not applied until you click the OK or Apply buttons.
These dialog serve for the same purpose as modal dialogs, however, they don't have buttons such as OK, Apply, Cancel. The changes you make in such dialogs are applied immediately. The dialogs behave as toolbars - they are always open and in the Windows version can be docked on the sides of the main window. Besides, you can group dialogs turning them into tabs of one dialog. This helps to save screen space. As a rule, the functionality in floating dialogs is doubled in the corresponding modal dialog, so the user is free to choose which way is more convenient.