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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
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Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

by David Brennan, Dan Heller, Paula Ferguson
September 1993
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1014 pages
28h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual
When the form is complete, you return it to the person who gave it to you. The attendant can check it over to see if
you forgot something. If there are errors, you typically take it back and continue until it's right. The attendant can
simply ask you the question straight out and write down whatever you say, but this prevents him from doing other
work or dealing with other people. Furthermore, if you don't know the answer to the question right away, then you
have to take the form back and fill it out the way you were doing it before. No matter how you look at it, this process
is not an interview where you are asked questions in sequence and must answer them that way. You are supposed to
prepare the form off−line, without requiring interaction from anyone else.
Window−based applications should be treated no differently. Each window, or dialog, can be considered to be a form
of some sort. Allow the user to fill out the form at her own convenience and however she chooses. If she wants to
interact with other parts of the application or other programs on the desktop, she should be allowed to do so. When the
user selects one of the buttons in the action area, this action is her way of returning the form. At this time, you may
either accept it or reject it. At no point in the process so far have we needed a modal dialog.
Once the form has been submitted, you can take whatever action is appropriate. If there are errors in any section of the
dialog, you may need to notify the user of the error. Here ...
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