Re: [Usability] File Chooser Dialog

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 02:04, Shaun McCance wrote:

> Why not have the help button be optional (off by default, since there's
> no reasonable default action), and provide a means for the application
> to hook a callback function to it?  The help button could be useful for
> explaining things like extra options your application puts in the file
> dialog.

Funnily enough, the first repsonse I got when I polled the other Sun
usability guys about the whole file selector issue was "it should have a
Help button" :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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