Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
*) Dialog Button alignment and ordering Mac OS dialogs have the OK button in the lower right corner, and the Cancel button to the left of it. Most other platforms have it the other way round. Buttons in the wrong place could be very annoying to the end user, so some abstraction is needed here.
*) Dialog Button naming A rather minor point: many platforms have ready-made Yes-No-Cancel dialogs. Apple expressly forbids "Yes" and "No" as button labels - they recommend using verbs ("Don't Save" - "Cancel" - "Save") instead. Might be too much work to bridge these differences, but who knows?
This may be determined by the toolkit. Certainly, Motif has a number
of standard dialogs, with buttons typically labelled OK, Cancel and
Help (and sometimes Apply).
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Glynn Clements