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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Dialog

This opens the Security Settings dialog box to configure the security settings for the selected zone. (This is from microsoft.com)

Could 'dialog' usually be replaced by 'window'?

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I would say not. I believe in current usage, the windows concept refers to multitasking, in which each window is temporarily assigned to a different (probably independent) function or operation or program or software or website, etc. I think a dialog box is just a handy, often small interface device which allows you to communicate or input some specific bit of information to some software or website.

— Avangi

  • I would say not.
  • I believe in current usage, the windows concept refers to multitasking, in which each window is temporarily assigned to a different (probably independent) function or operation or program or software or website, etc.
  • I think a dialog box is just a handy, often small interface device which allows you to communicate or input some specific bit of information to some software or website.
  • Granted, you can manually shrink a window until it practically disappears, or make it the size of a typical dialog box, but a dialog box is usually a sort of permanant part of a given program or software or website.
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I would say not. I believe in current usage, the windows concept refers to multitasking, in which each window is temporarily assigned to a different (probably independent) function or operation or program or software or website, etc.
I think a dialog box is just a handy, often small interface device which allows you to communicate or input some specific bit of information to some software or
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That's the difference! Got it. THanks, Avangi.
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