He is rebuffed with a rude error message box shown in Figure 17-3. Trying to rename an open file is a sharing violation, and the operating system rejects it with a patronizing error message box.
When a user sees an error message box, it is as if another person has told her that she is stupid. Users hate this (see Figure 25-1).
The following configuration file will send an E-mail using mutt for the rain warning and pop-up a message box to the local display for 10 seconds when the rain has passed.
The program rejects it with the same curt error message box. If instead the control were programmed to think of itself as a numeric entry control, it could perhaps behave better. It doesn’t bother me if the program converts the nine into a 9, but it certainly is incorrect when it says that nine is not a valid number.
It begins by creating a request object and then popping up an informational message box.
If a bar in the breakdown view is too short to see its full name, just select it and refer to the name in the prompt message box or the left-side table that's highlighted.
If a printer is missing, the message box should offer options for deferring the printout or selecting another printer. If the database is hopelessly trashed and useless, it should offer to rebuild it to a working state, including telling the user how long that process will take and what side effects it will cause.
When a user inadvertently enters a value that the program cannot accept, the program issues an error message box.
After you click the new button on the acronym Expander Preferences page, a message box (shown in figure 6) appears that allows you to enter new acronyms and their expanded forms.
The kind of auditory feedback we’re proposing is not the same as the beep that accompanies an error message box. In fact, it isn’t a beep at all.
You should see an informational message box telling you that the pattern was applied successfully.
In it, a colored cloud is used to indicate the old process model version and a pop-up message box over the cloud shows the migration history of the instance, as shown in Figure 25.
A user types 17, and we reward this innocent entry with an error message box that says “You can only enter values between 4 and 8.” This is poor user-interface design; a much better scheme is to use a bounded control that automatically limits the input to 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. If the bounded set of choices is composed of text rather
