If the "box" is just a rectangle then it is probably some sort of
modeless window,
if the "box" is 'talking' to me then it's an ask/answer thing (which
have always struck me as
labelled the wrong way round).
Personally I tend to go for "thingy", this is so polysemantic there is
absolutely no need to worry about
whether it is being ambiguous or not; because it is.
The "unfortunate" 'fact' is that current computers do not function like
people and
the other way round, and despite all the razzmatazz about fuzzy logic .
. . .
While there may be computers that can fool people into thinking they are
humans over a phoneline,
the "real" sex dolls the BBC have been burbling on about recently [
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39859939 ]
is unlikely to fool anyone: although, come to think of things,
propositioning people tends to be fairly unambiguous.
Richmond.
On 5/25/17 2:55 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote:
Were would you use "box" as a synonym (if it were one)? Is it the same as
"rectangle" or "ask/answer". End users often tell me, "a box popped up on
my screen.", not a prompt, or a message. Next, they proceed to tell me
what it said. ME: "You're telling me, there was a _talking box_ on your
screen?".
~Roger
On May 24, 2017 5:49 PM, "Mark Wieder via use-livecode" <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
On 05/24/2017 05:43 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
One of the other things that the xtalk languages have that makes them more
appealing is synonyms
<cough>
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Mark Wieder
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