Message boxes
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Use message balloons or partial-screen
dialog boxes to prompt the user for information. Use full-screen message
boxes primarily for system messages when the user must select an
item from a list or enter data that is not selectable.
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Use full-screen message boxes to prompt
the user for information or answers to application-specific questions.
Message box options should typically be limited to two.
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Alert message boxes
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Include code to wake up a Pocket PC device and
display a message balloon or play a sound. Time-sensitive information
should also be displayed in a balloon. Information that is not time sensitive
can be displayed on the Today screen or in the notification area.
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Use a full-screen alert message box only
if the alert concerns time-sensitive information for a current activity
or an activity running in the background. Information that is not
time sensitive can be displayed on the Home screen or in the notification
area. You cannot wake up a Smartphone device. It must be turned
on by the user.
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Options
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Minimize the the number of controls in
an Options dialog box. Do not use menus with the Options dialog
box or the Settings control panel. Any tab content should not scroll, and
all editable controls should be displayed above the expanded SIP
area.
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Use one column only and one control per
row. Each row should be a minimum of 22 pixels high. Avoid contact
with the title bar and soft keys by adding a two-pixel
buffer at the top and bottom of the Options dialog box.
Use the right soft key as the Menu soft key and the left soft key
as the Done soft key.
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