Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window

[Mike C. <mf...@sp...>]

Looks good!


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From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oli...@si...] 
Sent: 02 April 2012 13:27
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window


Here's the result of combining Mike's and Mark's suggestions:
 
A dialog is a stylized form of window that is familiar to most users. As dialogs
have evolved they have become more useful, and can now provide the user
interface function for many applications. Also, a dialog is drawn by the
operating system, while drawing a normal window is mostly the programmer's
responsibility. Thus producing an application needs much less programming work
because the Rexx programmer doesn't need to know or understand the low-level
mechanics of drawing to the screen. In summary, dialogs now have many window
functions, and are much easier to produce. And it's this that makes dialogs a
particularly useful extension to a Rexx interpreter. 
 
I'm going to go with this unless anyone wishes to suggest an improvement.
 
--
Oliver Sims
 

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From: Mike Cowlishaw [mailto:mf...@sp...] 
Sent: 02 April 2012 06:52
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window


Yes, Marks's point is a good one.


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From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oli...@si...] 
Sent: 01 April 2012 23:25
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window


A very good point. I like your emendation. Many thanks. I'll ponder over this -
see if maybe I can merge it somehow with Mark's suggestion.
 
Oliver

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From: Mike Cowlishaw [mailto:mf...@sp...] 
Sent: 01 April 2012 19:46
To: 'Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window


I think you lost most of your readers in the first two words ...  :-)  Wikipedia
does not 'state' anything.
 
I think you are trying to say that:
 

A dialog is a stylized form of window that is familiar to most users.  As
dialogs have evolved and users have become accustomed to them, dialogs have
become more useful and can now provide much of the function of many
applications.

 
?
 
Mike
 


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From: Oliver Sims [mailto:oli...@si...] 
Sent: 01 April 2012 21:29
To: oor...@li...
Subject: [Oorexx-devel] ooDialog - Dialog vs Window



At the start of the Guide, I'd like to have a short statement about the
difference between dialogs and windows. Here's a draft:

Wikipedia states, "In a graphical user interface of computers, a dialog box is a
type of window used to enable reciprocal communication or "dialog" between a
computer and its user." So a dialog is a "type of window", which is (Wikipedia
again) "... a visual area containing some kind of user interface." Thus a dialog
is less than a window. At one time, most GUI applications needed windows, with
dialogs being used only for simple functions such as file finding, or entering a
password. Since then, the function provided for dialogs has expanded enormously.
So much so that today a reasonable application can be built with only dialogs -
as this Guide attempts to show. 

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Oliver