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A dialog or dialog box is a type of window in a graphical user interface which prompts for user interaction.

Dialog boxes come in two main types, modal and modeless.

Modal dialog boxes are spawned by a particular window and block events to that window until the interaction between the dialog box and the user is complete.

Modeless dialog boxes do not block events to the main application windows and both may be used at the same time. A common example is a search dialog in a document editor application which may remain open while not actively searching for ease of access by the user.

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How to tab between buttons on an Mac OS X dialog box

I know that there has been a similar question asked here very recently, but I was wondering if it was possible to tab between buttons on default Mac OS X dialog boxes? I already have the All controls option enabled in System Preferences → Keyboard &…
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How to make windows explorer preview scripts and other text files

When you click a file with the preview window open, windows will show you a preview if windows knows how to do it. But files like .json and .py will not preview. It would be sometimes useful in the open dialog of any editor to preview a script…
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Is it by design that Windows 10 no longer displays " has stopped working" dialogs when apps crash? Can I re-enable this dialog?

In earlier versions of Windows, when an app crashes, I would get a dialog that says " has stopped working". However, in Windows 10, I don't typically see this dialog—the app simply closes and the Windows Error Reporting service (WerFault.exe)…
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How can I see bottom of dialogue box that is offscreen?

I've been searching for a way to get to the bottom portion of a dialogue box that spills below the edge of the screen. It's important that I get to it because it's where the save, default, cancel buttons are found. I've tried all sorts of…
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Chrome's modal dialog box stuck off screen. How to move it back permanently?

Google Chrome throws up a modal dialog box once in a while. This is the box put up by js's alert() function. Installing an extension also puts it up. So does this very Stack Exchange website if I hit "back" while writing a post like this one. It's…
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Create a custom dialog box on startup

How do I make a custom popup to be appear every time I log in to windows? I am unfamiliar with this and I want to create a popup like a reminder/note every time I log in. I'd like the popup will stay there until user closes it. I am using Windows…
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Unmodalize Dialogs (Make Modal Dialogs Non-Modal)

I'm on Windows 10 and annoyed by many modal dialogs of built-in applications (e.g. Windows-Explorer's Options dialog) and third party applications (e.g. Eclipse's Run Configuration dialog). Example Open Windows Explorer (Win+E), go to the tab View,…
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How do you see hidden files and folders in the open file dialog in Windows 10?

I have explorer set to view hidden files and that works fine. However, I just noticed when trying to open my hosts file that the 'etc' folder is hidden and therefore doesn't show up in the open file dialog. Apparently the open file dialog doesn't…
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How to switch yes and no buttons in dialog box, either in Windows or Linux?

I'm using the Cinnamon DE (based on Gnome 3, uses the GTK3 toolkit) for GNU/Linux. I also use Windows 10 for approximately the same amount of time each week. Now, the default button positions for each environment is different, and this is driving me…
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AutoHotKey – ellegant way of waiting until a system dialog box becomes able to accept keystrokes?

Standard system Print dialog or Save dialog is swallowing keys sent immediately after opening. Is there a way how to send keys successfully as soon as possible? Details: Let's have some simple use case of Print dialog, i.e. if you press Ctrl+P in…
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How do I remove the warning before deleting a shortcut?

How do I remove the warning before deleting a shortcut in Windows? Every time I want to delete a shortcut it warns me that I'm not actually deleting the program, just a shortcut.
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Inkscape dialog too large to fit in the screen

I cannot fully access the "document properties" of inkscape. See the bottom part of the screenshot. The last few options are not visible, and I am not able to scroll down either. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with Cinnamon desktop environment. Inkscape…
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Why I am I getting this output from copy dialog box?

I was copying my old Windows files to a new partition for unnamed reasons and then the copy dialog box gave me this screen : I had 0 items remaining but 45 seconds and 1.83GB left to copy. After a few minutes Windows presented me this : According…
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macOS: how to enable "All Applications" in Application chooser dialog (Open with > Other...)

I am trying to find the correct configuration command to enable "All Applications" by default when in the application chooser dialog (after selecting "other" from the "open with" context menu). I am pretty sure this command would be part of the…
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Replace Open/Save dialog

Is it possible to make an own save/open dialog (through windows app development) and hook it in to replace the normal save/open dialog? I'm pretty sure it's not possible through the normal UI/Win10 settings, but what about registry changes and/or…
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