Related Chapters

  • Chapter 4—Establish a Consistent User Interface Style.

    Provides additional items to check for property sheets, wizards, and specific controls.

  • Chapter 15—Keep It Simple.

    Offers suggestions on how to simplify dialog boxes.

  • Chapter 18—Appropriate Defaults Are Cool.

    Describes the importance of having defaults and presents suggestions on how to implement them. Also presents a case study of a find dialog box that shows how strategically assigning the initial input focus eliminates unnecessary effort.

  • Chapter 22—Unnecessary Dialog Boxes Are Evil.

    Explains why unnecessary dialog boxes harm an interface and presents some suggestions on how to eliminate them.

  • Chapter 23—Unnecessary Message Boxes Are Pure Evil.

    Describes dialog box time-outs and when they should be used.

  • Chapter 35—Handle All Video Modes.

    Presents suggestions on how to make dialog boxes resolution-independent and how to find video mode problems.



Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft Windows
ISBN: 0735605866
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 334

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