True.. 

Guys(to everyone)
I just wanted to say thanks soo much for this thread.. It has been a
great eye opener for me. And brought up some questions that I have had
anyway.. Like the proper way to close an application.

Thanks soo much!

daniel

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Daniel O'Dorisio
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www.odorisio-networks.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Carter [mailto:Steve.Carter@t...] 
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:10 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: can this be true??


Well, yes, if they're closing the whole app.  I was thinking of a dialog
:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel O'Dorisio [mailto:daniel@o...]
> Sent: 19 October 2001 12:33
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] RE: can this be true??
> 
> 
> Hehe :-) lol... Except maybe a dancing gorilla would capture attention
> better??:-)
> 
> 
> --------------------------
> Daniel O'Dorisio
> daniel@o...
> www.odorisio-networks.com
> --------------------------
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Carter [mailto:Steve.Carter@t...]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:31 AM
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] RE: can this be true??
> 
> 
> I think when they click the X there should be a flash animation of a 
> dancing monkey that lasts about 30 seconds and finishes with 'Thank 
> you for your interest in this disabled feature.  Your computer is
> currently
> performing the task you requested it to do.  If you would prefer your
> computer to divert resources to playing cartoons instead, please click
> again.'
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: andy@e... [mailto:andy@e...]
> > Sent: 19 October 2001 12:30
> > To: professional vb
> > Subject: [pro_vb] RE: can this be true??
> > 
> > 
> > Steve> 
> > 
> > Your approach looks good to me and I like the idea about bring the 
> > bocked form to the front.
> > 
> > I was going to trap the 'form closed by impatient users' problem in 
> > the Query unload event.  However, as Curtis pointed out some
> > user's will sit 
> > there and click on the X about 50 times.  So I thought that 
> > disabling it 
> > would 
> > 1) give them a visual clue ie. cause them to think that 
> > 'maybe there's a 
> > reason the stupid X thingy is not closing this bloody form...'
> > 2) 'train them into using the 'cancel' button I mention on my 
> > post to James
> > 
> > Thanks for your input,
> > andy
> > 
> > > That's a good point actually.  In my app where I trap
> > queryunload and
> > beep,
> > > it is in my todo list to make it bring the blocking
> > document to the front
> > > and ask the user about closing that... just haven't got
> > round to it yet.
> > > > 
>