Sucess Dialog boxes was Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0ea2 and ANTLRWorks 1.0ea2 released!

[Matthew Ford]

Hi Ter,
These sort of  'sucess' dialog boxes are indicative of un-reliability.

In the early days of the net they were appropiate, but these days my email
package does not gleefully pop up
a dialog box every time it manages to send an email.  It shows me its sucess
in more subtel ways.

If you are of the school that 'this is the way we always did it' then you
could still add
a "do not show this dialog box againg" tick box.

For a somewhat humorous take on these annoying dialog boxes and alternatives
see
http://www.forward.com.au/javaProgramming/javaGuiTips/dialogBoxes.html#dialog_boxes

matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Parr" <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
To: "ANTLR Interest" <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3.0ea2 and ANTLRWorks 1.0ea2 released!


>
> On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:32 AM, Matthew Ford wrote:
>
> > Just downloaded ANTLRWorks to version 1.0ea2
> > colour coding and highlight still up the creek.
> > There is an annoying "I have finish sending the stats  OK"
> > Why not just close the stats window when you are finished and only
> > annoy me if there are errors
> > (even then I probably don't want to know about stats errors)
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Apple does it, which is a pretty good reason to me ;)  Further,
> anything dealing with the net I think it's reasonable to give a
> success message.  Clearly it's possible to disagree with this
> philosophy :)
>
> Thanks for submitting stats!
>
> Ter
>