modal dialog

Only modal dialog boxes may appear over other windows.

The following program displays a modal dialog box containing a hello, world message.

Especially in the form of a modal dialog that interrupts whatever the user is trying to accomplish.

It needs to pop up this bloody modal dialog that totally blocks any and all iTunes actions.

Jakob Nielsen states as an advantage of modal dialogs that it improves user awareness.

For example, modal dialogs (windows for which there is not a separate thread) do not appear.

The user interface is mouse-driven with a toolbar for common tools, and some modal dialog windows.

New interface elements were integrated, including sheets (document modal dialog boxes attached to specific windows) and drawers.

Modal dialogs are part of a task flow, and recommendations are given to place them where the focus is in that flow.

A modal dialog interrupts the main workflow.

The same type of dialog box can be compared with the "standard" modal dialog boxes used in Windows and other operating systems.

Usability practitioners generally regard modal dialogs as bad design-solutions, since they are prone to produce mode errors.

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For example, the modal dialog that pops up when you click on the font sizing button is a simple drop-shadow floating box.

Lightbox is a JavaScript technique used to display images and other web content using modal dialogs.

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Modal windows are often called heavy windows or modal dialogs because the window is often used to display a dialog box.

Dangerous actions should be undoable wherever possible; a modal dialog that appears unexpectedly or which is dismissed by habituation will not protect from the dangerous action.

Other applications employ graphical user interfaces and modal dialog boxes that allow the user to enter one or more values to be supplied for the placeholders.

The concept of a document modal dialog has recently been used, most notably in Mac OS X and Opera Browser.

However, modern user interface guidelines prefer to avoid modal dialog boxes if possible, and use more specific verbs, such as "Continue", to label their action buttons instead of the generic "OK".

Under iOS 3, every new SMS or push alert showed up as a modal dialog box in the center of the screen, forcing the user to make a decision immediately.

That any touch-based phone interface wouldn't still be clinging to old, sad desktop UI standards (just "click" on this tiny, tiny X to close this modal dialog!)

OK is used to label buttons in modal dialog boxes such as error messages or print dialogs, indicating that the user must press the button to accept the contents of the dialog box and continue.

This is a frequent interaction pattern for modal dialogs, but it is also criticised by usability experts as being ineffective for its intended use (protection against errors in destructive actions) due to habituation.