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<p>Well, I agree that infinite dialog loops do not provide optimal user convenience. But it is not really a proper solution to serve any default value here, as Tim pointed out.</p>
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<p>What about this?</p>
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<p>Computer: Please enter your author initials!</p>
<p>User: No thanks (Cancel)!</p>
<p>Computer: Warning: This will raise an error. Are you sure?</p>
<p>User: I'm not sure (No)!</p>
<p>Computer: Please enter your author initials!</p>
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Computer: Warning: This will raise an error. Are you sure?</p>
<div>User: I'm sure (Yes)!</div>
<div>Computer: self error</div>
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<div>> <span style="font-size:12pt">Oh, let's remember the slightly strange but useful UIManager>>#askForProvidedAnswerTo:ifSupplied: for this sort of case as well.</span>
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<div>Please, don't reuse this strangle protocol ... First, a ProvideAnswerNotification is already raised in this case, and second, their interface is quite horrible IMHO ... :-)</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Christoph</div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 25. Februar 2020 19:47:23<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Infinite dialog loop in authorinitials</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Oh, let's remember the slightly strange but useful UIManager>>#askForProvidedAnswerTo:ifSupplied: for this sort of case as well.<br>
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