Re: Modal dialogs again

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> writes:

Jim> Error messages like "Couldn't connect to target board" or "Your
Jim> program just crashed" certainly should be modal, and SHOULD be
Jim> dialogs.

I don't think these are similar enough to be treated similarly.

For the first, I agree, especially if there is some reason attached so
that figuring out the why of the failure to connect might reasonably
begin.

For the second, I think there are already plenty of other indications
that a program crashed.  For instance the buttons ought to change
state (you can no longer "Next" a crashed program).  The dialog that
pops up for this never fails to annoy.  Or, to look at it another way,
shouldn't we also pop up a dialog when we hit a temporary breakpoint?
Or when a watchpoint is taken?  Or a signal handled?

Jim> 2) Configuration panels:

Jim> Does is happen right when you change one of the combo boxes?

Unfortunately Insight already suffers from confusion on this issue.
Sometimes I think the answer is yes, sometimes no.  This is worse than
making the "wrong" choice for the modality of the dialog (or, rather,
confusion *is* the only wrong choice :-).

Tom