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  • How to write "good" user interface text?

    - by Roddy
    Many applications are let down by the quality of the 'writing' in their user interfaces: typically, poor spelling, grammar, inconsistent tone, and worse yet, "humour" are the usual offenders. Are there good resources that can help developers to write UI messages that give a professional and positive impression to your customers, even when your code's going to hell in a handcart? Thanks, all — Some great resources here, so I will CW this question. I'm accepting Adam Sill's answer because it's the one that (as a developer of desktop apps) I found most pertinent.

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  • Tooltip equivalent for touch devices?

    - by eteubert
    Hey folks, Touch devices are on the rise. More and more website developers try to optimize their pages for those devices. Until recently the most common solution was to build a mobile version for the website. But with tablets this will most likely change to adjusting the original pages to be touch compatible. One big issue I encountered are tooltips. There are some websites and web applications relying heavily on storing important informations in some kind of tooltip triggered by hovering the mouse arrow over some interface element - which does not exist on touch devices. So what do you think is a good universal way to adopt these pages without redesigning the site from scratch? Does this universal way even exist? My first idea was a tiny touchable question mark but this would hardly be big enough for a finger.

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  • How to nicely inform to the user that an unknown error has happened?

    - by Jaime Soriano
    There are several guidelines for error reporting, that are usually based on giving to the user useful information when he or she does something wrong, but to give this kind of information you need to be handling the error and know that it can happen. There are also tons of articles about designing 404 error pages. But, what can you do when it's a new, unhandled error provoked by a failure in the shoftware? Are there some guidelines about how to nicely report totally unexpected errors in a web site, as an unexpected error 500? What header message should be shown in that case? something like "Sorry, an unexpected error has ocurred" would be enough? What information should be given? Should it have mechanisms to help to report the failure to developers? Which ones?

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  • Who will take benefit of graceful degradation? Desktop users, mobile users, screen reader users?

    - by metal-gear-solid
    How many percentage of desktop users? How many percentage of mobile, ipad, iphone users? and is there any other devices to access website which do not support JavaScript? Is JavaScript also a problem for screen reader users? Who will take benefit if we make things without JavaScript or we give non-JavaScript version? Who will take benefit of graceful degradation? Desktop users, mobile users, screen reader users? Is it worth to give time for graceful degradation? Is WCAG 2.0 do not prefer to use Javascript? Why anyone will like to surf net without JavaScript?

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  • How to indicate to user that a command affects a subset of a multiple selection?

    - by Zamboni
    Here is an example that illustrates my question. I have a program that lists 1000 items. I select 10 of 1000 items. The program enables a button indicating that a command is available for my selection. I click the button, and a window appears. I make some change in the window and click OK. The command changes 5 of the 10 items in my multiple selection, and those 5 changed items now reflect a modified state in my list. My question is: How do I indicate to user that the command affects a subset of a multiple selection before clicking OK? Can anyone cite examples of existing products that handle this scenario well?

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  • How to make a plugin for Finder to browse zip-archives as folders?

    - by Andrei
    What really surprises me is lack of some essential functionality in Finder, when one migrates from Windows to OS X. One of the things is a possibility to open an archive as a folder, i.e. staying in the directory tree and being able to drag and drop files from the archive to folders in the tree, sidebar etc. What would you do to enable such functionality?

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  • To change checkbox text or to not change?

    - by Axarydax
    Hi, I'm having an argument with a co-worker, and I'm trying to convince him that it's a bad idea to change checkbox text (label) according to the checkbox state. For example, we have a combobox that automatically picks selected value (and is disabled) when checkbox next to it is checked and is enabled when checkbox is cleared. His idea is to show Autoselect when checkbox is checked and Manual select when it's cleared. I'm sure that this will confuse the user as users tend to think that checking a checkbox next to a verb will make it true, only to find that the label has changed to something else. What is your opinion on this matter? P.S. I remember reading about changing checkbox text somewhere, in a book or blog article, but can't remember where. It would be great to have this in writing :-)

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  • Easily digestible UI tips for developers

    - by David
    What are some key UI design tips that every developer should know? While there are a number of UI resources for developers (for example, Joel Spolsky's User Interface Design for Programmers), I'm interested in more of a bullet list that can be communicated in 1 to 2 pages. I'm interested in more tactical, day-to-day UI tips, as opposed to overarching UI design goals that would be covered in a UI design meeting (presumably attended by at least one person with a good UI sense). A collection of these tips might cover about 80% of the cases that an everyday programmer would come across.

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  • Which web-safe fonts are more readable to eyes as a body text? Which web-safe fonts should not be us

    - by metal-gear-solid
    Which web-safe fonts are more readable to eyes as a body text? Which web-safe fonts should not be used? What should be the minimum font size of <p>body text</p> for better readability? What font size should we use for <H1/2/3/4/5/6>, <p> <ul>, <ol>? Should we use same font-size for <p>, <ul>, <ol> and <th> <td>? What would be the balanced typography font sizing scheme?

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  • User Interface. Multiple select with priority.

    - by Andrew Florko
    I'm designing user interface and want to ask your advises how to make it more user-friendly. Please tell any suggestions and if you have ever seen implementation of something familiar please share the link. University. There are 40+ specialities grouped into 5 faculties. User choose several he is interested in and than orders them by priority. For example I am interested in "programming microcontrollers", "system analysis" and "experimental physic". I must find them quickly in "programming faculty", select them and then order - what I prefer most and what I prefer less then others I select. Any ideas welcome :)

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  • Design report of 4-D data set

    - by phq
    I'm writing a report generator that will present data each being generated from 4 parameters. Time interval Group Measurement value(one of several to choose from) Device All these are orthogonal giving me a 4-D dataset to present. There are some simplifications where one parameter is the same for all and other parameters are merged. Still it appears as there are situations where all values are wanted on the report. In short the report should both be simple to overview and contain details. There will also be an interface where the user setup the range and granularity for each parameter. The most naive solution would be to have a 2D table where each cell contain another table with values of the remaining two dimensions. This is technically feasible but I'm worried that it would become hard to overview. Another approach is to present first two dimensions in a 2D table and the remaining parameters in groups Are there any good method to address this kind of issue?

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  • How can I simplify this user interface?

    - by Bears will eat you
    I'm writing an internal-tools webapp; one of the central pages in this tool has a whole bunch of related commands the user can execute by clicking one of a number of buttons on the page, like this: Ideally, all of the buttons would fit on one line. Ordinarily I'd do this by changing each widget from a button with a (sometimes long) text label to a simple, compact icon - e.g. could be replaced by a familiar disk icon: Unfortunately, I don't think I can do this for every button on this particular page. Some of the command buttons just don't have good visual analogs - "VDS List". Or, if I needed to add another button in the future for some other kind of list, I'd need two icons that both communicate "list-ness" and which list. So, I'm still considering this option, but I don't love it. So it's come time for me to add yet another button to this section (don't you love internal tools?). There's not enough room on that single line to fit the new button. Aside from the icon solution I already mentioned, what would be a good* way to simplify/declutter/reduce or otherwise improve this UI? *As per Jakob Nielsen's article, I'd like to think that a dropdown menu is not the solution.

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  • Are there IDEs in which the code-completion widget is not a linear list?

    - by Uri
    Most mainstream IDEs use code-completion in the form of a linear list of suggestions (typically methods). Are there any IDEs (mainstream or not) or IDE plugins that use a non-linear widget, such as a tree? (e.g., pick category first, then the actual recommendation)? I'm working on an IDE feature and want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel or infringing some patent.

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  • How should I display invalid options?

    - by mafutrct
    I've got a WinForms client-server app that displays various offers in a list. Every user (client) has a "rating". An offer consists of various data including a minimum and maximum rating. If a user's rating does not fall in that interval, he should not be able to take the offer. Of course I could just perform some server filtering and send a list of offers prefiltered for each user to the client application. But that would surely, and rightfully, lead to confused requests "Why isn't this offer showing up? I know it exists, it shows up on [other user]'s screen." How should I handle this? My favorite solution so far is to grey out the offer and add a tooltip "You can't take this offer because your rating is too high/low" while displaying greyed-out offers at the bottom of the list to leave the actually valid offers easily visible on top of the list.

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  • What control to use

    - by Tarscher
    Hi all, I have a list of devices that I need to filter on according to options selected by the user. One such option is cooling: when the user selects cooling only the devices with cooling are shown. If cooling is not selected then all devices (with or without cooling) are shown. I wonder what kind of control I best use for this. My feeling is thata checkbox is not a good control since it represents: No cooling (unchecked) / only cooling (checked) while I want cooling and no cooling (unchecked)/ only cooling (checked). What control is best used here? Thanks.

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  • Using an icon for links opening an lightbox

    - by Logistetica
    Hi, On one of our sites we decided to use lighboxes in 2 instances. I am aware of pros and cons of using lightboxes so this is not a topic for a discussion. But I'd like to get your opinion about using small icons denouncing that clicking link will open a lightbox. Something like below. What do you think?

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  • error while installing the libmemcached

    - by Ahmet vardar
    I get this while installing libmemcached root@server [/libmemcached]# make make all-am make[1]: Entering directory `/libmemcached' if /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I. -ggdb -DBUILDING_HASHKIT -MT libhashkit/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.lo -MD -MP -MF "libhashkit/.deps/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.Tpo" -c -o libhashkit/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.lo `test -f 'libhashkit/aes.cc' || echo './'`libhashkit/aes.cc; \ then mv -f "libhashkit/.deps/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.Tpo" "libhashkit/.deps/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.Plo"; else rm -f "libhashkit/.deps/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.Tpo"; exit 1; fi ./libtool: line 866: X--tag=CXX: command not found ./libtool: line 899: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found ./libtool: line 866: X--mode=compile: command not found ./libtool: line 1032: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found ./libtool: line 1033: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: Xg++: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-DHAVE_CONFIG_H: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-I.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-I.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-I.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-I.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-I.: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-ggdb: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-DBUILDING_HASHKIT: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-MT: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: Xlibhashkit/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.lo: No such file or directory ./libtool: line 1176: X-MD: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-MP: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: X-MF: command not found ./libtool: line 1176: Xlibhashkit/.deps/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.Tpo: No such file or directory ./libtool: line 1176: X-c: command not found ./libtool: line 1228: Xlibhashkit/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.lo: No such file or directory ./libtool: line 1233: libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `': command not found make[1]: *** [libhashkit/libhashkit_libhashkit_la-aes.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/libmemcached' make: *** [all] Error 2 OUTPUT OF ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... 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(cached) gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for isainfo... no checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking dependency style of g++... (cached) gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether __SUNPRO_C is declared... no checking whether __ICC is declared... no checking "C Compiler version--yes"... "gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)" checking "C++ Compiler version"... "g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)" checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h checking for size_t... yes checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no checking for library containing clock_gettime... -lrt checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking size of off_t... 8 checking size of size_t... 8 checking size of long long... 8 checking if time_t is unsigned... no checking for setsockopt... yes checking for bind... yes checking whether the compiler provides atomic builtins... yes checking assert.h usability... yes checking assert.h presence... yes checking for assert.h... yes checking whether to enable assertions... yes checking whether it is safe to use -fdiagnostics-show-option... yes checking whether it is safe to use -floop-parallelize-all... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wextra... yes checking whether it is safe to use -Wformat... yes checking whether it is safe to use -Wconversion... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wmissing-declarations from C++... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wframe-larger-than... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wlogical-op... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wredundant-decls from C++... yes checking whether it is safe to use -Wattributes from C++... no checking whether it is safe to use -Wno-attributes... no checking for perl... perl checking for dpkg-gensymbols... no checking for lcov... no checking for genhtml... no checking for sphinx-build... no checking for working -pipe... yes checking for bison... bison checking for flex... flex checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for mt... no checking if : is a manifest tool... no checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether the -Werror option is usable... yes checking for simple visibility declarations... yes checking for ISO C++ 98 include files... checking whether memcached executable path has been provided... no checking for memcached... /usr/local/bin/memcached checking whether memcached_sasl executable path has been provided... no checking for memcached_sasl... no checking whether gearmand executable path has been provided... no checking for gearmand... no checking libgearman/gearmand.h usability... no checking libgearman/gearmand.h presence... no checking for libgearman/gearmand.h... no checking for library containing getopt_long... none required checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no checking whether pthreads work without any flags... yes checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... yes checking the location of cstdint... configure: WARNING: Could not find a cstdint header. <stdint.h> checking the location of cinttypes... configure: WARNING: Could not find a cinttypes header. <inttypes.h> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for htonll... no checking for working SO_SNDTIMEO... yes checking for working SO_RCVTIMEO... yes checking for supported struct padding... yes checking for alarm... yes checking for dup2... yes checking for getline... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for memchr... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for memset... yes checking for pipe2... no checking for select... yes checking for setenv... yes checking for socket... yes checking for sqrt... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strtol... yes checking for strtoul... yes checking for strtoull... yes checking arpa/inet.h usability... yes checking arpa/inet.h presence... yes checking for arpa/inet.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking malloc.h usability... yes checking malloc.h presence... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking netdb.h usability... yes checking netdb.h presence... yes checking for netdb.h... yes checking netinet/in.h usability... yes checking netinet/in.h presence... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking stddef.h usability... yes checking stddef.h presence... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking execinfo.h usability... yes checking execinfo.h presence... yes checking for execinfo.h... yes checking cxxabi.h usability... yes checking cxxabi.h presence... yes checking for cxxabi.h... yes checking sys/sysctl.h usability... yes checking sys/sysctl.h presence... yes checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes checking umem.h usability... no checking umem.h presence... no checking for umem.h... no checking for C++ compiler vendor... gnu checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking for error_at_line... yes checking for pid_t... yes checking vfork.h usability... no checking vfork.h presence... no checking for vfork.h... no checking for fork... yes checking for vfork... yes checking for working fork... yes checking for working vfork... (cached) yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for GNU libc compatible realloc... yes checking whether strerror_r is declared... yes checking for strerror_r... yes checking whether strerror_r returns char *... yes checking for stdbool.h that conforms to C99... yes checking for _Bool... no checking for int16_t... yes checking for int32_t... yes checking for int64_t... yes checking for int8_t... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for pid_t... (cached) yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for uint16_t... yes checking for uint32_t... yes checking for uint64_t... yes checking for uint8_t... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for working volatile... yes checking for C/C++ restrict keyword... __restrict checking whether the compiler supports GCC C++ ABI name demangling... yes checking sasl/sasl.h usability... no checking sasl/sasl.h presence... no checking for sasl/sasl.h... no checking uuid/uuid.h usability... yes checking uuid/uuid.h presence... yes checking for uuid/uuid.h... yes checking for main in -luuid... yes checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes checking for floor in -lm... yes checking for sigignore... yes checking atomic.h usability... no checking atomic.h presence... no checking for atomic.h... no checking for setppriv... no checking for winsock2.h... no checking for poll.h... yes checking for sys/wait.h... yes checking for fnmatch.h... yes checking for MSG_NOSIGNAL... yes checking for MSG_DONTWAIT... yes checking for MSG_MORE... yes checking event.h usability... yes checking event.h presence... yes checking for event.h... yes checking for main in -levent... yes checking for endianness... little configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating docs/conf.py config.status: creating libhashkit-1.0/configure.h config.status: creating libmemcached-1.0/configure.h config.status: creating libmemcached-1.2/configure.h config.status: creating libmemcached-2.0/configure.h config.status: creating support/libmemcached.pc config.status: creating support/libmemcached.spec config.status: creating support/libmemcached-fc.spec config.status: creating libtest/version.h config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands --- Configuration summary for libmemcached version 1.0.6 * Installation prefix: /usr/local * System type: unknown-linux-gnu * Host CPU: x86_64 * C Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) * Assertions enabled: yes * Debug enabled: no * Warnings as failure: no * SASL support: --- anyone knows how to solve this ?

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  • Usability: Save changes using "Apply" button or after every single change?

    - by mr.b
    I am interested in hearing opinions and experiences of fellow developers on topic of designing user interface, usability AND maintainability-wise. Common approach is to allow users to tweak options and after form gets "dirty", enable "Apply" button, and user has possibility to back out by pressing cancel. This is most common approach on Windows platform (I believe MS usability guidelines say to do so as well). Another way is to apply changes after every single change has been made to options. Example, user checks some checkbox, and change is applied. User changes value of some text box, and change is applied after box looses focus, etc. You get the point. This approach is most common on Mac OSX. Regardless of my personal opinion (which is that Apple is better at usability, but software I usually write targets Windows users), what do you people think?

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