Re: [Rails-devel] Nonmodal popups

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Right, but you asked if the menu items should be disabled, and one of them
is "let me see that other window" which should not be disabled.

Does that make sense?

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:

> Yes, that’s the whole point of making popups non-modal.  Several ones
> already are.****
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> Are there times when the respondent might want to view other windows
> before answering?  I can imagine being frustrated if the popup says "do you
> want to convert this share?" and my answer is dependent on needing to use
> the menu to see the stock market, for example.
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:****
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> I have pushed a change to disable all buttons (in the current window) as
> long as a non-modal popup request has not been answered.
> Two questions remain, on which I'm in doubt:
> 1. Should (most) menu items also be disabled?
> 2. Should we make an exception to message-only popups?  I currently do.
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