Part of the Aqua guidelines suggest that when using sheets to report information, the user choices should be action words and not simple yes/no. I'm writing this because when I went to close the iJournal 1.49 window, it popped a sheet saying:
"Entry has not been posted. Close and lose any changes?
No/Yes"
Something I suggest that would be more to the Aqua guidelines:
"This entry has not been posted. Closing this window will cause you to lose any changes.
Don't Close / Close"
"Entry has not been posted. Close and lose any changes?
No/Yes"
Something I suggest that would be more to the Aqua guidelines:
"This entry has not been posted. Closing this window will cause you to lose any changes.
Don't Close / Close"
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This entry has not been posted. If you don't post it, you will lose any changes.
Don't Post / Post
Post the entry
Not post the entry, but choose to lose work
Not post the entry and resume editing the work
With Don't Post / Post, you run into the issue of what happens when I click Don't Post? Does it close the window and I lose my work? What if I didn't want to post right away, but continue editing?
How about this:
"This entry has not been posted. If you do not post it, you will lose any changes.
Don't Post / Cancel / Post"
(If all else fails, I look at how TextEdit does it hehe)
Of course, just about every other Mac program asks if you want to save your document when you close it's window, but iJournal isn't document-based and right now you can't save your entries anyway. Obviously, once that's implemented, a standard Save/Close without saving/Cancel type message would be most appropriate, maybe with Post as another option.
This brings up a feature I've been waiting for a while, being able to save drafts of entries... as in, if the feature existed, it would be nice to have Cancel / Close / Post / Save As Draft. :)