I find applications that do this very annoying. Also, I seem to remember Cooper metioning this several times in "About Face" as a bad idea.
If you are going to do this, have a checkbox on the dialog that sais "Don't ask me this question again" or something similar and make sure your program REMEMBERS that the user checked that dialog box. Bill Davis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kavanagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: Prompt user before exiting (usability question) > Hi, > > this is more usability than Swing, so if there's a more appropriate forum then please let me know. > > I'm wondering whether it's good practice to prompt the user before exiting the application ? I have > an exit action tied to an Exit menu item and also to the windowClosing event. Should I prompt > (there's nothing to save) or just quit ? > > Thanks in advance, > -Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Advanced-swing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/advanced-swing _______________________________________________ Advanced-swing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eos.dk/mailman/listinfo/advanced-swing
