on clicking vs clicking

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Which of these sentence is correct?On clicking the OK button, the warning dialog gets closed.ORClicking the OK button, the warning dialog gets closed.I am wondering second option is correct.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

harry1999Which of these sentence is correct?

Neither, I am afraid.

On clicking the 'OK' button, the warning dialog closes.

Harry1999 · Answer

No, I think gets closed also works here. Closed is an adjective.

What do you say?

Mister Micawber · Answer

harry1999What do you say?

I say 'No'. That is not the way to write the instruction.

Harry1999 · Answer

I was writing test cases. In IT industry, this document provides steps to be executed, expected result, actual result, etc. It's like if you do something, it shows/does something that is expected.

So, the expected result in this context is, "the dialog gets closed" - when?"Clicking the 'OK' button. If one has to verify this case written in the document.

Final sentence:

Verify that (on) clicking the OK button, dialog gets closed.

Your version,

Verify that clicking the OK button closes the warning dialog.

Would first sentence be correct in this context? or am I totally wrong?

Please help!

KJinCali79 · Answer

If you're speaking of a test case where you're verifying that a certain action occurs as a result of another action, you might try wording the sentence as follows:

"Upon clicking the OK button, the warning dialog shall close." -- you could use "will" instead of "shall" if this is a stated requirement, but "shall" works if closing the warning is the result the person is to verify as actually occurring.

Mister Micawber · Answer

'Shall' in the 3rd person still does not work there, KJin. You might like to read the Am Heritage Dictionarry's note:

Usage Note:

The traditional rules for using shall and will prescribe a highly complicated pattern of use in which the meanings of the forms change according to the person of the subject. In the first person, shall is used to indicate simple futurity: I shall (not will) have to buy another ticket. In the second and third persons, the same sense of futurity is expressed by will: The comet will (not shall) return in 87 years. You will (not shall) probably encounter some heavy seas when you round the point. The use of will in the first person and of shall in the second and third may express determination, promise, obligation, or permission, depending on the context. Thus I will leave tomorrow indicates that the speaker is determined to leave; You and she shall leave tomorrow is likely to be interpreted as a command. The sentence You shall have your money expresses a promise ("I will see that you get your money"), whereas You will have your money makes a simple prediction.·Such, at least, are the traditional rules. The English and some traditionalists about usage are probably the only people who follow these rules, and then not with perfect consistency. In America, people who try to adhere to them run the risk of sounding pretentious or haughty. Americans normally use will to express most of the senses reserved for shall in English usage. Americans use shall chiefly in first person invitations and questions that request an opinion or agreement, such as Shall we go? and in certain fixed expressions, such as We shall overcome. In formal style, Americans use shall to express an explicit obligation, as in Applicants shall provide a proof of residence, though this sense is also expressed by must or should.In speech the distinction that the English signal by the choice of shall or will may be rendered by stressing the auxiliary, as in I will leave tomorrow ("I intend to leave"); by choosing another auxiliary, such as must or have to; or by using an adverb such as certainly.·In addition to its sense of obligation,shall also can convey high moral seriousness that derives in part from its extensive use in the King James Bible, as in "Righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps" (Ps 85:13) and "He that shall humble himself shall be exalted" (Mt 23:12). The prophetic overtones that shall bears with it have no doubt led to its use in some of the loftiest rhetoric in English. This may be why Lincoln chose to use it instead of will in the Gettysburg Address:"government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

KJinCali79 · Answer

Mister MicawberThe use of will in the first person and of shall in the second and third may express determination, promise, obligation, or permission, depending on the context.

Actually that is precisely how I am using shall. The statement is an IT use case. It other words it is a requirement of the the programming that the dialog warning closes after the OK button is clicked.

Mister Micawber · Answer

KJinCali79The use of will in the first person and of shall in the second and third may express determination, promise, obligation, or permission

No, that use in whatever definition expresses willpower, human willpower or decision. The original instruction is merely mechanical result. (I don't even see any 'requirement'—it is a simple statement of what happens when you click the OK button.) If you don't believe me, you should ask around.

BarbaraPA · Answer

Would you consider "Click the OK button to close the warning dialog box"?

Fivejedjon · Answer

KJinCali79"Upon clicking the OK button, the warning dialog shall close."

I'm one of those older speakers of British English who still use 'shall', but it seems very odd to me in that sentence.

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