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- Dialogs
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- Dialog boxes are used to gather additional information from the user
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- or provide the user with additional information about the project.
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- When used to gather information from the user, dialog boxes can contain
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- all the zones of a window, except scroll bars.
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- When dialog boxes are used to provide information to the user, they
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- typically contain static text and two buttons: OK and Cancel. An
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- example of a dialog box is the dialog that appears when About
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- Marksman‚Ñ¢ is chosen from the Apple menu.
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- !Modal Dialog Box
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- This dialog box forces all inputs to itself and does not allow menu
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- selection or other windows to be used until this dialog box is
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- closed. The user must close the dialog box before making a
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- selection outside the dialog box or choosing a menu command.
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- Modal dialog boxes usually contain two buttons: OK and Cancel.
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- OK closes the dialog box and performs the original command.
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- Cancel closes the dialog box and cancels the original command.
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- An example of a modal dialog box is the standard open dialog box.
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- !Modeless Dialog Box
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- This is a dialog box that works like a window and allows other
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- windows to remain active at the same time. The user can perform
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- other operations without closing the dialog box. A modeless dialog
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- box is closed by clicking the close box or by choosing Close from
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- the File menu. Buttons in modeless dialog boxes seldom close the
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- dialog box. An OK button tells the computer to perform the
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- operation, leaving the dialog box open. A Cancel button closes
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- the operation. An example of a modeless dialog box is the Find
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- dialog in a word processing application.
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