Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-02 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
Looks good! _ From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk] Sent: 02 April 2012 13:27 To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window Here's the result of combining Mike's and Mark's sug

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-02 Thread Oliver Sims
lto: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. _ From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk] Sent: 01 April 2012

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
Yes, Marks's point is a good one. _ 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. Ma

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Oliver Sims
st' 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

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > 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 h

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Hobart Spitz
to an "underlying" dialog if the > logic of the application demands it. > > ooDialog's pretty good, innit? > > -- > Oliver > > > -- > *From:* Hobart Spitz [mailto:orexx...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 01 April 2012 19:33 > *T

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
alogs have become more useful and can now provide much of the function of many applications. ? Mike _ 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

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Oliver Sims
:orexx...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 April 2012 19:33 To: Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window I think the audience you are directing this to would also like to know that a dialog box usually (?) preempts access to any "underlying" win

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Hobart Spitz
I think the audience you are directing this to would also like to know that a dialog box usually (?) preempts access to any "underlying" window from which the box orignated. On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Oliver Sims < oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote: > ** > > At the start of the Guide,

[Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

2012-04-01 Thread Oliver Sims
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