{"id":41783,"date":"2003-11-18T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/11\/18\/make-sure-the-buttons-match-the-question\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T14:03:00","slug":"make-sure-the-buttons-match-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031118-00\/?p=41783","title":{"rendered":"Make sure the buttons match the question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         When your program displays a dialog box with buttons, please make the buttons match         the text. Consider this dialog, which appears after you install patches from Windows         Update:      <\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/team\/raymondc\/0310.yesno.png\" width=\"617\">      <\/p>\n<p>         It asks a yes\/no question, but the options are &#8220;OK&#8221; and &#8220;Cancel&#8221;. Either the buttons         should be changed to &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No&#8221;, or the text of the message should be changed         to match the OK\/Cancel buttons. In the latter case, the text could go something like,         &#8220;Windows Update will restart your computer. If you want to restart later, or close         other programs first, click Cancel, and then restart your computer manually.&#8221;      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your program displays a dialog box with buttons, please make the buttons match the text. Consider this dialog, which appears after you install patches from Windows Update: It asks a yes\/no question, but the options are &#8220;OK&#8221; and &#8220;Cancel&#8221;. Either the buttons should be changed to &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No&#8221;, or the text of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-41783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When your program displays a dialog box with buttons, please make the buttons match the text. Consider this dialog, which appears after you install patches from Windows Update: It asks a yes\/no question, but the options are &#8220;OK&#8221; and &#8220;Cancel&#8221;. Either the buttons should be changed to &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No&#8221;, or the text of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}