Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.isc.com (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Centering alerts Message-ID: <10779@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 20 Jun 88 19:59:05 GMT References:Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian) Organization: Suction and Pressure Lab, California Institute of Lawsonomy Lines: 19 Where should alerts be put on a multi-screen system? I can think of several possibilities: 1. Same screen as menu bar 2. Same screen as active window 3. Same screen mouse is in 4. "center" of total desktop 5. Just put it anywhere, and beep a lot so the user knows there is one, and let him look for it :-) -- Tim Smith tim@ism780c.isc.com "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs