Tool Dialog Prompts - Revision history

Paulb at 18:16, 14 May 2008

2008-05-14T18:16:50Z

Paulb: /* New Features */

2007-09-11T16:16:27Z

‎New Features

Paulb: /* Consistent Look and Feel */

2007-09-06T23:08:45Z

‎Consistent Look and Feel

Paulb: /* Consistent Look and Feel */

2007-09-06T18:00:31Z

‎Consistent Look and Feel

Paulb: /* New Features */

2007-09-06T17:58:54Z

‎New Features

Paulb: /* Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Easy Way */

2007-09-06T17:57:48Z

‎Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Easy Way

Paulb at 17:57, 6 September 2007

2007-09-06T17:57:06Z

Paulb: Moved discardable dialog section to a new page

2007-09-06T17:54:59Z

Moved discardable dialog section to a new page

Paulb: /* Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Other Way */

2007-09-06T17:54:26Z

‎Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Other Way

Paulb at 00:16, 6 September 2007

2007-09-06T00:16:54Z

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 [[Category:EiffelStudio]]
-[[Category:Extending_EiffelStudio]]
+[[Category:Extending EiffelStudio]]
 Dialog prompts are an essential part of [[Tool Integration Development]] and [[Services]] in EiffelStudio. As such we have provide a number of EiffelStudio specific classes for creating and displaying EiffelStudio dialog prompts.

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 * Dialog prompts are always modal to the parent window.
 * Automatic location of the last active EiffelStudio window so tools need not worry about window management.
-* Automatic key navigation binding; Use of TAB, LEFT or RIGHT cursor keys and button first(or next)-character key ('''Yes''' => Y, '''Create''' => C, ...)
+* Automatic key navigation binding; Use of {{key|TAB}}, {{key|LEFT}} or {{key|RIGHT}} cursor keys and button first(or next)-character key ('''Yes''' => {{key|Y}}, '''Create''' => {{key|C}}, ...)
 * Ability to set a default active button.

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	[[Image:Dialog_prompts_example_question.png\|New prompts in EiffelStudio]]		[[Image:Dialog_prompts_example_question.png\|New prompts in EiffelStudio]]
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		+	For more examples of the new dialog prompts in [[:Category:EiffelStudio\|EiffelStudio]] [[EiffelStudio_6.1_Releases\|6.1]] see [[Taxonomy of Dialog Prompts]].

	== New Features ==		== New Features ==

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 == Consistent Look and Feel ==
-As of EiffelStudio 6.1 ([[EiffelStudio 6.1 Releases]]), EiffelStudio uses custom dialog prompts that come in a flavor of presentation that stands above the stock dialog prompts found in EiffelVision2. As such all dialog prompts in EiffelStudio should be using the new prompt classes instead of those found in EiffelVision2 or the slightly specialized versions found in previous versions of EiffelStudio.
+As of [[:Category:EiffelStudio|EiffelStudio]] [[EiffelStudio_6.1_Releases|6.1]], [[:Category:EiffelStudio|EiffelStudio]] uses custom dialog prompts that come in a flavor of presentation that stands above the stock dialog prompts found in [[:Category:EiffelVision2|EiffelVision2]]. As such all dialog prompts in EiffelStudio should be using the new prompt classes instead of those found in [[:Category:EiffelVision2|EiffelVision2]] or the slightly specialized versions found in previous versions of [[:Category:EiffelStudio|EiffelStudio]].
 Just to get an idea of what the new prompts look like, here’s an example:

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 * Dual-model; providing agent actions to perform on button presses and/or retrieval of the dialog result code.
 * Simplified interfaces with less code to write.
-* Extendable (see <eiffel>ES_DISCARDABLE_COMPILE_SAVE_FILES_PROMPT</eiffel>.)
+* Extendable (see [https://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/svn/es/trunk/Src/Eiffel/interface/new_graphical/dialogs/prompts/es_discardable_compile_save_files_prompt.e ES_DISCARDABLE_COMPILE_SAVE_PROMPT].)
 * Provides both standard and advanced creation routines for quick or complex creation.
 * An abstraction that makes it easy to replace the prompts in the future, updating the look etc.
 * Dialog prompts are always modal to the parent window.
 * Automatic location of the last active EiffelStudio window so tools need not worry about window management.
-* Automatic key navigation binding; Use of ''TAB'', ''LEFT'' or ''RIGHT'' cursor keys and button first(or next)-character key ('''Yes''' => ''Y'', '''Create''' => ''C'', ...)
+* Automatic key navigation binding; Use of TAB, LEFT or RIGHT cursor keys and button first(or next)-character key ('''Yes''' => Y, '''Create''' => C, ...)
 * Ability to set a default active button.

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 == Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Easy Way ==
-For the simplest way to show dialog prompts inside [[EiffelStudio]] or to use dialog prompts in the Eiffel [https://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/svn/es/trunk/Src/framework/ framework library] see [[Using Dialog Prompts (Basic)]].
+For the simplest way to show dialog prompts inside [[:Category:EiffelStudio|EiffelStudio]] or to use dialog prompts in the Eiffel [https://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/svn/es/trunk/Src/framework/ framework library] see [[Using Dialog Prompts (Basic)]].
 == Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Other Way ==

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	== Displaying Discardable Dialog Prompts ==		== Displaying Discardable Dialog Prompts ==
	The final set of dialog prompts are discardable dialog prompt. Discardable dialog prompts allows the user to opt out of seeing the dialog prompt subsequent showings. For information on using discardable dialog prompts, see [[Using Dialog Prompts (Advanced Discardable)]].		The final set of dialog prompts are discardable dialog prompt. Discardable dialog prompts allows the user to opt out of seeing the dialog prompt subsequent showings. For information on using discardable dialog prompts, see [[Using Dialog Prompts (Advanced Discardable)]].
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−	~~== Discardable Dialog Prompts ==~~
−	Showing dialog prompts showing the same messages over and over again can be annoying for some, if not most. Take the security or alert notifications in your browser, most of us just turn them off after we have read them after they have been shown for the first time. [[EiffelStudio]] is full of cases where "discardable" dialog prompts are useful as not to hinder or annoy end-users. One such prime example is performing a finalization compilation. Finalization asks the end-user if they want to discard or keep assertions. For the most part (95%-99% of cases) assertions are always discarded. It makes sense to offer a way to suppress the dialog in the future and perform a default, commonly used, pre-defined action (discarding assertions in this case) when performing a finalization in the future.
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−	Like the regular dialog prompts, discardable dialog prompts can also be extended. For an example of extension inside EiffelStudio, see the [https://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/svn/es/trunk/Src/Eiffel/interface/new_graphical/dialogs/prompts/es_discardable_compile_save_files_prompt.e ES_DISCARDABLE_COMPILE_SAVE_PROMPT] class.

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 == Displaying Dialog Prompts, the Other Way ==
 For more control over the way dialog prompts are display and how users interact with them, see [[Using Dialog Prompts (Advanced)]].
 == Discardable Dialog Prompts ==