Codejock Developer Community : Question mark does not belong in TaskDialog! http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:55:02 +0000 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:52:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=17312 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Question mark does not belong in TaskDialog! : I understand that MS want to...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=17312&PID=60444&title=question-mark-does-not-belong-in-taskdialog#60444 Author: Marco1
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Posted: 24 September 2010 at 5:52am

I understand that MS want to have clear guidelines for application usage.
In fact we did some research concerning the usage of our product and it seems that dialogs/boxes with big questions marks are better recognized as a question than a box with a warning sign.
The normal "stupid" user doesn't know anything (and even doesn't care) about special question mark reservation.
For me a developer it's okay to have the choice even if this is not within the visual compliance of MS.
Just a personal thought.

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Subject: 17312
Posted: 24 September 2010 at 5:40am

Some users wanted it and they got it. It's not my app, so why worry?

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Subject: 17312
Posted: 24 September 2010 at 4:55am

13.4.1: "Added Question icon support for TaskDialog" Thumbs Down
 
I have pinpointed this before. Question marks do not belong in TaskDialogs. Microsoft have explicitly discouraged the misuse of the question mark, and they also removed it when they introduced the TaskDialog API.
 
I know some users want this stuff, but I still think we should not encourage bad UI. Not to mention that software written with your library may become non-compliant with "Vista/W7 Logo".
 
Recommended reading:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511277.aspx
 
* Use the question mark icon only for Help entry points. For more information, see the Help entry point guidelines.
* Don't use the question mark icon to ask questions. Again, use the question mark icon only for Help entry points. There is no need to ask questions using the question mark icon anyway, it's sufficient to present a main instruction as a question.
* Don't routinely replace question mark icons with warning icons. Replace a question mark icon with a warning icon only if the question has significant consequences. Otherwise, use no icon.
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