Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!mikem 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 Lines: 16 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 (anagrams): Mr. Machine Tool; Ethical Mormon; Chosen Immortal; etc.