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Old February 23rd, 2003, 03:14 AM
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Default Re: UI Glitches

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
That is a laughable comparison!

Se4 does ask to be sure if you want to exit when you go to the trouble of opening the menu and clicking close.

This situation is much more like that same word processing program popping up a message box asking if you really wanted to repeat the same letter twice in a row.
Sure. It is laughable. That was the plan. I'm glad it worked.

It *was* a pretty "macro" scale comparision, and I thin your example is pretty apt. It would be pretty annoying if word asked if I wanted to delete the same letter twice in a row.

Using your same example, the UI of SEIV is akin to allowing the user to infinitely delete a letter that doesn't exist. This is the same as using 2200,2200,2200 resources to build a facility that can never be built.

I guess the appropriate Word equivalent to repeat building a facility that can never be finished because the planet is full might be similar to doing a Search and Replace operation that infinitely find and replaces a word that isn't even in the document.
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