Modal Dialog Boxes
In Commerce Server Business Desk, modal dialog boxes are used to offer one or more choices to the user. One use of modal dialog boxes is when transitioning from one page to another, or between different tasks on the same page. Depending on the choice(s) made, the user may be shown different subsequent pages, or default values may be provided in a different way.
If a simple choice needs to be made when clicking on a task button, it is preferable to use task menus rather than displaying a modal dialog box. For more information about task menus, see Task Buttons and Menus.
It is not possible to anticipate all situations in which a Business Desk module might appropriately use a modal dialog box. An alternative is to familiarize yourself with the use of modal dialog boxes in the modules that ship with Commerce Server 2000 and follow their lead.
To promote consistency, modal dialog boxes created for new modules should follow the same conventions used by the modal dialog boxes in existing modules, as follows:
The background color for all modal dialog boxes should be the same color as used for the background of Business Desk itself. This should occur automatically when the Business Desk customizable style sheet (CSS) is used.
The font for all text in modal dialog boxes is 8 pt. Verdana.
All buttons along the bottom of the dialog should be right-justified by including them in a table with a wide far-left cell and follow the normal order of such buttons in Win32 applications:
<table width=100%><tr> <td width=100%></td> <td><button…><button…><button…></td> </tr></table>