RE: [eclipse-dev] The "Yes, No, Always, Never" Dialogs

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Internal to the IDE we have MessageDialogWithToggle, which is used for the 
exit prompt.  It would be good to have something reusable in JFace.

Regarding the preference, that is usually the expected behaviour when you 
say "Always do this" or "Don't bug me again".
But it also implies that you need a preference elsewhere to turn the 
prompt on again if you change your mind.
Finding this preference can be non-obvious if the prompt dialog has no 
pointer to it.

Some apps have a "Reset All Prompts" button in the prefs pages to avoid a 
multitude of such prefs.  But in an integration platform like Eclipse, and 
in some of the larger products, it's unclear that you'd want this.

Whether or not we provide reusable code here, we should define appropriate 
guidelines for such prompts, for both the prompt dialog and the use of 
prefs.

Nick




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It would be nice if the that dialog could store the answer as a 
preference,
and never pop up
if the user has saved his choice.

Genady 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Burnette [mailto:Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:29 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [eclipse-dev] The "Yes, No, Always, Never" Dialogs
> 
> Good idea - now is there a standard Jface dialog that can be 
> used (or one added) for this standard Yes/No/Cancel/Remember 
> style? That would help consistency across the product.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Pollock [mailto:douglas.pollock@xxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:09 PM
> > To: Eclipse Developers Mailing List
> > Subject: [eclipse-dev] The "Yes, No, Always, Never" Dialogs
> > 
> > ...
> > So, in summary, I'm recommending the following 3 things:
> > 1.) Replace "Yes/No/Always/Never" dialogs with 
> > "Yes/No/checkbox" dialogs;
> > 2.) Add a "Cancel" button to most, if not all, of the dialogs; and
> > 3.) That "X" should alway means "Cancel".
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