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"Unitname already in project" dialog

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Howard Page-Clark

When saving a new unit over an old one, you get an IDE dialog worded thus:

The unit "..." already exists.
Ignore will force the renaming,
Cancel will cancel the saving of this source and
Abort will abort the whole saving.

However the dialog does not have the 3 buttons implied (Ignore, Cancel, Abort) but two: "Force renaming", and "Cancel renaming".

I suggest the text is reworded to remove reference to Abort (or an Abort button is provided, or there is an indication that this refers to the [X] close icon), and that the reference to Ignore is altered to refer to "Force renaming".

There are clearly various ways to improve the wording - but there is no reason the provided buttons should not be better identified, along with their purpose.

Howard
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Maxim Ganetsky
to Howard Page-Clark

27.07.2012 20:33, Howard Page-Clark ?????:

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When saving a new unit over an old one, you get an IDE dialog worded thus: The unit "..." already exists. Ignore will force the renaming, Cancel will cancel the saving of this source and Abort will abort the whole saving. However the dialog does not have the 3 buttons implied (Ignore, Cancel, Abort) but two: "Force renaming", and "Cancel renaming". I suggest the text is reworded to remove reference to Abort (or an Abort button is provided, or there is an indication that this refers to the [X] close icon), and that the reference to Ignore is altered to refer to "Force renaming". There are clearly various ways to improve the wording - but there is no reason the provided buttons should not be better identified, along with their purpose.

I removed references to button actions. They don't have any useful info anyway.

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