User Interface

Navigation Services provides an improved user interface for opening and saving documents. This user interface includes a host of easy-to-use features for browsing and managing the file system. Navigation Services dialog boxes include

Open

Save

Choose a File

Choose a Folder

Choose a Volume

Choose a File Object

Create New Folder

Navigation Services provides two types of alert boxes:

Save Change

Discard Changes

All Open, Save, and Choose dialog boxes share some basic user interface elements. These include:

a browser list

a Location pop-up menu button

Shortcuts, Favorites, and Recent bevel buttons

a default ("action") button

a Cancel button

a sort order button

a size box

Figure 1-1 shows these elements used in an Open dialog box.

Figure 1-1 Standard dialog box elements

Note: Minor changes were made in the user interface elements of Navigation Services dialog boxes between version 1.0 and version 1.1. Figures in this document have been updated for Navigation Services version 1.1 if appropriate.