Positioning of the confirmation button in a dialog box.

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  • Hi Colleagues, I have a question for you.

    None of you are concerned about the location of the affirmation buttons in working dialog boxes.

    When you work quickly and almost do not look at the dialog box, because you know what to choose, but the confirmation button is not always on the right side, and often instead of confirmation you press cancel.

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  • On Windows at least, the standard is for the confirmation button to be on the left. For example closing Notepad with unsaved changes has the 'Save' button on the left:

    Closing Chrome with unsaved changes also has the 'Leave' button on the left:

    Creating a condition or action is a multi-step process like a "wizard" where you can imagine moving right through the process as you advance and left as you go back. In this case the buttons are positioned to correspond to that process. It looks like Windows wizards usually have a button ordering of Back / Next / Cancel rather than Cancel / Back / Next like Construct has. I suppose we could change it, but then we'll trip up everyone who has been used to the 'Next' button on the right for the past 10+ years, as even Construct 2 had the same button ordering. And then such fundamental UI changes mean things like documentation screenshots, lesson plans, printed books etc. all suddenly become out of date, and updating them all is a huge job that is basically never fully done, so then you have ongoing confusion with out-of-date documentation. So sometimes I think it is better not to change things like this, even if it's a bit inconsistent, as the cost of changing it may well be higher than the cost of leaving it as it is.

  • Indeed, this will harm all manuals and videos.

    The only thing left is to use the Enter button on the keyboard, which always selects confirm regardless of the position of the buttons.

    Since there is nothing we can do, we can close the thread.

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