From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Canceling dialogues
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:16:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CE6532.2010403@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uy7u9mtsj.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> When Emacs wants to pop the YES/NO dialog, it calls the function
> x-popup-dialog (Fx_popup_dialog), which in the Windows port currently
> creates a menu instead of a dialog and pops that menu. This function
> (x-popup-dialog) is a general-purpose function, it doesn't know, nor
> care, what it gets as the contents of the dialog. It isn't called
> only for the YES/NO type of dialog, you can have other dialogs with
> arbitrary long lists of alternatives.
>
> So, unless we somehow program the function to discover that it is
> called for YES/NO dialog, we cannot blithely add a CANCEL button to
> it.
>
Why not add a cancel alternative for the other calls too?
> If you meant to add code to x-popup-dialog that would recognize this
> special case, I think fixing the generic dialog code is a better
> investment of our resources and energy, and the result is going to be
> much cleaner.
>
Yes, that would be better. But could not my suggestion be implemented
with much less effort?
> In addition, there's the question what to do for CANCEL, as someone
> else pointed out.
>
I tried to answer that in another message. It should do what C-g does
for the command line alternative (minus some things that does not seem
appropriate as David pointed out).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-31 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 17:38 Canceling dialogues Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 19:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 20:16 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-07-31 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:21 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-31 20:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-31 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 23:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 5:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 6:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 4:35 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-01 6:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:43 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-31 19:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-31 19:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-31 23:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 5:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-01 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-31 22:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 6:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 6:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-02 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-02 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-03 9:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-03 22:16 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 8:36 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-01 8:58 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-01 12:06 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-08-03 10:14 LENNART BORGMAN
2006-08-03 11:32 ` Mathias Dahl
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