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Modal windows are sometimes called heavy windows or modal dialogs because they often display a dialog box. User interfaces typically use modal windows to command user awareness and to display emergency states, though interaction designers argue they are ineffective for that use. [1] Modal windows are prone to mode errors. [1] [2] [3]
Non-modal or modeless dialog boxes are used when the requested information is not essential to continue, and so the window can be left open while work continues elsewhere. A type of modeless dialog box is a toolbar which is either separate from the main application, or may be detached from the main application, and items in the toolbar can be used to select certain features or functions of the ...
In his book The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin defines modality as follows: "An human-machine interface is modal with respect to a given gesture when (1) the current state of the interface is not the user's locus of attention and (2) the interface will execute one among several different responses to the gesture, depending on the system's current state."
An example of a template dialog. On the left side of the Cite panel is a dropdown list of all available templates. Clicking one will open a dialog box with the fields for that template. Buttons on the bottom of the dialog are used to insert the ref into the article, preview the ref, reset the form, and close the dialog without changing the article.
jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery (a JavaScript library), Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML. [7]
jQuery jQWidgets MooTools OpenUI5 Prototype & script. aculo.us [9] qooxdoo React SproutCore Svelte Vue ZK Webix; Feature detection [20] Yes Yes [21] Yes Yes [22] No [23] [24] Yes [25] Yes Yes [26] No [27] Yes Yes No Yes DOM wrapped [28] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No [29] No [30] [31] Yes No Yes Yes XMLHttpRequest data retrieval Yes Yes Yes [32 ...
A context menu from LibreOffice Writer, appearing when the user right-clicks on a page element A context menu from Ubuntu desktop. A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation.
tk_chooseColor – pops up a dialog box for the user to select a color. tk_chooseDirectory – pops up a dialog box for the user to select a directory. tk_dialog – creates a modal dialog and waits for a response. tk_getOpenFile – pops up a dialog box for the user to select a file to open.