Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal display.c

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:50:13 -0700 (PDT)
(OK, let's try this again, this time with "@zing.org" after
"ethereal-dev".)

>   Added an "apply" button to the display option gui, so we can try new
>   timestamp display w/o having the display option GUI disappear.

I have a change to make the "Cancel" button put the timestamp display
option back to the value it had when "Display/Options" was first
selected, so if you do an "Apply", and then decide you didn't like the
change, "Cancel" will put things back.

Is that what "Cancel" is supposed to do in a dialog box that has "Apply"
as well as "Ok"?

(I tried it with the desktop themes setting on an NT box, and
unfortunately it *doesn't* do that; the theme in question I found
sinfully ugly, and I saw no way to revert, so I did it by hand with Your
Friend Mr.  Registry Editor, although I later found that the
"Appearance" tab in the "Display" Control Panel item may do the right
thing if you select the "Windows Standard" theme; that's what's so
lovely about Windows and GUIs, it's so *intuitively obvious* that
"Appearance" under "Display" can undo something you set from "Desktop
Themes".

An coworker thought "Cancel" should undo what you've applied, and
indicated that Microsoft software tends not to work that way, but he
came from Apple so he's obviously biased. :-))