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- Item 5648988 14-Dec-89 18:25
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- From: ROSENSTEIN1 Rosenstein, Larry
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- To: D2652 Strategic Planning Sys, D Bell,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: Note Manager and MacApp
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- Danny,
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- 1. The Notfication Manager doesn't care if your application is in front or not.
- It makes more sense, however, if you directly interact with the user when the
- application is in front, and use the NM when it isn't. The Notification
- Manager is intended to be used when you can't or shouldn't put up your own
- alert.
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- 2. I recall some guidelines on the use of the NM that say you should give the
- user a choice of whether to display an alert or sound when notification
- happens. The Print Monitor application does this, and you should see what
- options it provides. These guidelines were write for background apps, with the
- idea that when the application comes to the front it should remove the
- notification.
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- Having multiple modal dialogs on the screen at once doesn't sound like a good
- user interface to me. I would prefer to see a window that contains a list of
- items that need the user's attention, if you have more than 1. Then when the
- application is in the background, you can install a NM request when there is
- anything on the list.
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- 3. The nmResp must be a global procedure, not nested in any method or
- procedure.
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- Larry
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