RE: property dialogs

[Paul Hepworth <phepworth s-vision com>]

> While we're throwing ideas around, why not indicate pages on which
> changes are still unapplied, by changing their tab-label font to
> bold, appending an asterisk, or similar?
> 
> My personal preference is to have 'Apply', 'Apply+Close', and 'Close'
> buttons outside of the tab structure - the apply button applying
> changes to all pages.  When there are no changes pending, only the
> close button should be activated.
> 
> Have the default action on hitting return be 'Apply+Close' when
> there are changes, and 'Close' otherwise.
> 
> I think this is more intuitive than the 'OK', 'Cancel', 'Apply' MS
> Style.
> 
> I don't think an undo button is really necessary in many cases, but
> could be turned on as an addition to the three main buttons, at the
> programmers discression, along with undo buttons within individual
> pages.
> 
This scheme has my vote.
Regarding undo buttons (and defaults buttons), these should probably be
placed on the pages rather than on the main dialog, as it makes more sense
to undo or restore defaults for the single page you are looking at than for
all pages at once.


Paul