Re: Click X, or click the X button?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

That sounds like you're rationalizing GUI-driven documentation using
the language of task orientation.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Chris Despopoulos
<despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> ... Why does a dialog box need more than:
> * Synopsis (including gotchas, tips, and warnings)
> * Result (analogous to function return val, or output)
> * Inputs
> * Error states (usually unnecessary because alerts self-document errors)
>
> Then a "task" becomes something like...
> To configure your frazbot, set the following dialog boxes in the following order:
> * <link>Hinkey</link> dialog, to specify which hinkies will run during frazbot initialization
> * <link>Dinky</link> dialog, to assign the persistent hinky to the frazbot dinky state
> * etc.
>
> The *level* of task orientation jumps to a different electron orbit ...
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