Subj : RE: create new message template
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From : HECTOR SANTOS
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:17:14

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:25:24 -0400
From: HECTOR SANTOS
To: DAVE GOURD
Subject: RE: create new message template
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Thanks for the picture.

Yes, I understand.  The question is what are you cancelling too.

If the WINDOW is by itself, then a CANCEL would display a "Exit without
Saving?" prompt and then close the window.  This would be a CUI (Common
User Interface) that we traditionally know for dialogs.

But what do you do under a FRAME environmental?  What does the CANCEL do? 
Clear the frame window?

--
HLS

On 2007-03-25 1:12 AM, DAVE GOURD wrote to HECTOR SANTOS:

> One of us misundersttod I think, probably me ...
> It wasn't a matter of the difference between post and send - sending the 
> message after composing it is straight forward - there's a button to 'post 
> message', could be send, get it out of here, deliver msg, etc. - the 
> terminology moving the msg wasn't the point.
> 
> Let me try this - 
> I compose a msg - (partially or completely), but BEFORE I click on 'post', I 
> decide I don't want to send it (or post, have it delivered - the terms
could be 
> more or less interchangeable as far as most users are concerned). 
> 
> I personally know what to do - click back, home, logoff, anything but the 
> button ("Post Message" is what I see as I write this) that will send the msg 
> on its way, I know enough to not sit here and look for what to do NOT send 
> the message. But some novice users or otherwise unknowledgeable (?dense?) 
> persons might sit there for hours thinking if they leave this page without 
> erasing the message, cancelling, or somehow resetting the created msg that 
> it might get sent.
> 
> Maybe if there were a cancel or reset button (or some option along side or 
> built into a confirm prompt) that could be chosen as an alternative.
> 
> A lot more comfort in cancel or reset - there ain't no such animal as
'unsend'.
> 
> No biggie, just a suggestion.
> 
> Got another thing for you however - will post it private.
> 
> --
> Dave
> 
> (see attached example)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2007-03-24 7:50 PM, HECTOR SANTOS wrote to DAVE GOURD:
> 
> -> On 2007-03-24 7:01 PM, DAVE GOURD wrote to HECTOR SANTOS:
> -> 
> -> > I knew right away what one of my members was talking about when she 
> asked
> -> > if msgs are sent or not if she decided NOT to send a msg she had 
> composed
> -> > and did not click on post message. She said it was "a little confusing
> -> > about how not to send a message".
> -> > 
> -> > I told her as long as she did not click the post button that it
would not
> -> > be sent.
> -> > 
> -> > So, maybe a cancel w/window or text block that would maybe state - 
> msg
> -> > cancelled, and or the current click here to continue reading...
> -> > 
> -> > wcnav has the red hand button, and "do you want to send 
> -> > before this message before quitting" - y/n/c? confirmation dialog, 
> -> > may along that line.
> -> > 
> -> > --
> -> 
> -> Yes,  I understand the valid point.  But I do have a deja vu of the
> -> opposite request and discussion a while back.  I think it was either a
beta
> -> version or at some point where we had it say [ SEND ] instead of [ POST ].
> -> 
> -> The problem with [ SEND ] is that it might make matters worst if the
> -> message was not "trully" sent yet.   This was the reason why we went as 
> far
> -> to add two attributes to your posted message.   If its an EMAIL, then you
> -> MAY catch it when redisplaying the message and see a "EXPORTED" 
> attribute,
> -> and then a few seconds latter, a "SENT" attribute.
> -> 
> -> But thats for EMAIL where the EXPORTED and SENT attributes apply.
> -> 
> -> What if it isn't an EMAIL but a local message?   Does [ SEND ] make sense
> -> for local communications?  
> -> 
> -> So its all debatible of whats good or better for users.  1st comment about
> -> it in the manner years, so I think its pretty good.
> -> 
> ->  
>  
 
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