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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Centering Dialogs
Message-ID: <2411@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 88 18:16:41 GMT
References:  <10132@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <537@uva.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikem@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <537@uva.UUCP> borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes that at
Paragon, they concluded that it was best to center a dialog over the
screen that the cursor is currently on.

Especially for dialogs invoked with the keyboard (including command-key
equivalents, but also alerts in response to Clear, Backspace, etc.), this
makes the dialog location seem non-deterministic to a user who hasn't
yet psyched out your scheme.  ("Look, Irma, now the dang thing's over
in THAT one!"...)

Anyone at Apple care to tell us if the High Priests of the User Interface
have blessed a solution to this problem?

 -- Mike Morton // P.O. Box 11378, Honolulu, HI  96828, (808) 456-8455 HST
      Internet: msm@ceta.ics.hawaii.edu
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