Sudhir said:
When you click on the 'X' icon in the Upper Right hand corner of a
screen,
frquently used to close a Window in several applications, even to
close an
open message within Outlook, you end up inadvertantly closing Outlook.
The
dialog box does not provide an Option to not close the Application.
You are
forced to exit. This is a source of great frustration and should be
simple to
implement.
Wonder why after so many years it has not been provided.
cheers
Sudhir
The "X" titlebar icon does the same thing as the File->Exit menu. If
there are no changes to prompt to save, there is nothing to save so the
application closes. Same occurs for most applications: if there are no
changes, there is nothing to save, so don't bother interrupting the
application shutdown that the *user* requested. In the same vein of
your logic: add a prompt when the user selects to exit when there is
nothing changed, add another prompt because they may accidentally opt to
exit but really didn't want to exit, add another prompt to ask them
again since the user might have accidentally made the wrong select twice
already, add another prompt ... ad nauseum. I doubt we want
applications to not do what we tell them to do or to so overly interfere
with its use with super cautionary prompts that we can't get any real
work done. The only one to blame for the fat-finger errors are the
user.
When you flip the switch to turn off your bedroom lights at night to go
to sleep, how many times do you want to flip the switch? The once that
you intended to flip the lights off? No, because you might've hit the
switch accidentally so make the user flip it 3 times (once to off, back
to on, again to off). But maybe the user really didn't want to turn off
the lights, so make them flip it 5 times (off, on then off, and on then
off). Oops, the user got frustrated and tried to quickly and repeatedly
flip the switch but flipped it 6 times so the entire turn-off sequence
gets erased and the lights stay on, so now you have to flip the switch
another 5 times. Yeah, real desirable.
