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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Centering Dialogs
Message-ID: <351@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 88 13:35:57 GMT
References:  <10132@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <537@uva.UUCP> <2411@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <17588@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <17588@apple.Apple.COM> lsr@apple.com.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
...
>I think it would be acceptable to center on the main screen, because that is
>likely to be a focus of attention since the menu bar is there.  Even if
>the dialog appears as a result of a keyboard command, the user probably will
>tend to have the main screen right in front of him/herself.

Having been annoyed by this behavior recently, I'd like to interject.
For interference reasons, my SE and my large-screen monitor have to
be kept about a foot apart.  It turns out that this arrangement is very
happy; it gives me room for notes, pencils, etc between the screens.

Anyway, I use Acta on the SE screen, so it doesn't get in the way of other
stuff.  But woe is me if I want to change a typestyle; oooover to the other
screen I go, where the dialog box appears.  Then allllll the way back
to Acta.  It's annoying.

But maybe my setup is unique; I sure ain't using the same ``multi-screen''
management as on a Mac II.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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