Here's the result of combining Mike's and Mark's suggestions:
A dialog is a stylized form of window that is familiar to most users. As
dialogs have evolved they have become more useful, and can now provide the
user interface function for many applications. Also, a dialog is drawn by
the operating system, while drawing a normal window is mostly the
programmer's responsibility. Thus producing an application needs much less
programming work because the Rexx programmer doesn't need to know or
understand the low-level mechanics of drawing to the screen. In summary,
dialogs now have many window functions, and are much easier to produce. And
it's this that makes dialogs a particularly useful extension to a Rexx
interpreter.
I'm going to go with this unless anyone wishes to suggest an improvement.
--
Oliver Sims
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From: Mike Cowlishaw [mailto:m...@speleotrove.com]
Sent: 02 April 2012 06:52
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window
Yes, Marks's point is a good one.
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From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk]
Sent: 01 April 2012 23:25
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window
A very good point. I like your emendation. Many thanks. I'll ponder over
this - see if maybe I can merge it somehow with Mark's suggestion.
Oliver
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From: Mike Cowlishaw [mailto:m...@speleotrove.com]
Sent: 01 April 2012 19:46
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window
I think you lost most of your readers in the first two words ... :-)
Wikipedia does not 'state' anything.
I think you are trying to say that:
A dialog is a stylized form of window that is familiar to most users. As
dialogs have evolved and users have become accustomed to them, dialogs have
become more useful and can now provide much of the function of many
applications.
?
Mike
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From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk]
Sent: 01 April 2012 21:29
To: oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window
At the start of the Guide, I'd like to have a short statement about the
difference between dialogs and windows. Here's a draft:
Wikipedia states, "In a graphical user interface of computers, a dialog box
is a type of window used to enable reciprocal communication or "dialog"
between a computer and its user." So a dialog is a "type of window", which
is (Wikipedia again) "... a visual area containing some kind of user
interface." Thus a dialog is less than a window. At one time, most GUI
applications needed windows, with dialogs being used only for simple
functions such as file finding, or entering a password. Since then, the
function provided for dialogs has expanded enormously. So much so that today
a reasonable application can be built with only dialogs - as this Guide
attempts to show.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Oliver
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