"Are you sure?"

[ToeTag]

I'd rather see which mode you're in automatically change if you add or remove ordnance.

Especially when your doing it from the rearm pad

[Noir]

Its like a disease and MS are the carrier. theres more and more of these dumb dialog boxes appearing in Windows, every time I want to copy a file or run an installer. I understand Vista and Win 7 are even worse.

Believe it or not, Ubuntu is even worst, you have to put your password back in just to change a Wifi client WEP key.

[SlapShot]

^ pet hate in bad interface design, so NO!

For sure !!!

The software product that I develop does have ... "Are you sure ?" in "destructive" areas.

I had a customer ask me to put an "Are you sure ?" in a dialog that was just flat out silly to ask the question.

I asked ... "Why do you think it is needed there ?"

He said ... "Well, maybe that's not what he really wanted to do ... so I think it would be good to confirm it"

I said ... "OK ... so when he answers "Yes" to "Are your sure "? ... should I then pop it back up and ask ... "Are you REALLY sure ?" ... and if he answers "Yes" to that, should I then pop it back up and ask "Are you REALLY REALLY sure this time ?" ... and should we use this notion through out the product for consistency ?

He dropped the request.

[SlapShot]

So you are telling us that you have NEVER exited a full arena and been pissed that you lost you spot? I know it has happend to me before.

And I'll bet that that won't happen to many more times.

Clicking on something and getting "burned" is far less painful than putting %99.9 who pay attention to what they are clicking thru the "Are you sure ?" clicking task.

[Denholm]

Are you sure you want to increase elevator deflection? ...yes.

Are you sure you want to increase your bank angle past 45°? ...yes.

Are you sure you want to prevent the upcoming stall? ...Yes.

Are you sure you want to initiate the chat message, "SHuT UP!!1!?" ...Yes.

Are you sure you want to fire your cannons? ...Yes.

You only have 10 cannon rounds remaining. Continue firing? ...YEs.

You have 5 minutes of fuel remaining. Continue fuel flow to engine? ...YEs.

Are you sure you want to fire your rocket salvo? ...YES.

Do you want to receive the incoming private message reading, "i wuv uu?" ...YES.

Are you sure you want to decrease your angle of attack? ...YES.

Are you sure you want to invert your airplane? ...YES!

Are you sure you want to look left? ...YES!

Are you sure you want to zoom in on your gunsight? ...YES!!

Are you sure you want to stop firing? ...YES!!!

You have 2 minutes of fuel remaining. Continue fuel flow to engine? ...YES!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!!!

You have 1 minute of fuel remaining. Charge $40.00 to your CC for in-flight refuel? YES!!..... Wait.. What?

[dunnrite]

Are you sure you want to increase elevator deflection? ...yes.

Are you sure you want to increase your bank angle past 45°? ...yes.

Are you sure you want to prevent the upcoming stall? ...Yes.

Are you sure you want to initiate the chat message, "SHuT UP!!1!?" ...Yes.

Are you sure you want to fire your cannons? ...Yes.

You only have 10 cannon rounds remaining. Continue firing? ...YEs.

You have 5 minutes of fuel remaining. Continue fuel flow to engine? ...YEs.

Are you sure you want to fire your rocket salvo? ...YES.

Do you want to receive the incoming private message reading, "i wuv uu?" ...YES.

Are you sure you want to decrease your angle of attack? ...YES.

Are you sure you want to invert your airplane? ...YES!

Are you sure you want to look left? ...YES!

Are you sure you want to zoom in on your gunsight? ...YES!!

Are you sure you want to stop firing? ...YES!!!

You have 2 minutes of fuel remaining. Continue fuel flow to engine? ...YES!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!!!

You have 1 minute of fuel remaining. Charge $40.00 to your CC for in-flight refuel? YES!!..... Wait.. What?

Ok, that was friggen funny

I did notice that  

problem is it really doesnt help anyone, mainly because of what I'll call "dialog fatigue", film recording in AH is a good example. I keep forgetting to film sorties then want to have the odd film. so I enable the autorecording. turns out that I only really want to save a small % of films, so I get very used to hitting the cancel button. I do it so often that when I really do want to save a film, its too late. Ive already hit the cancel button without thinking about it.

Actually, a "do you really want to delete film?" would be nice.  (Of course, then you would get used to hitting enter twice.)

[Nemisis]

And I'll bet that that won't happen to many more times.

Clicking on something and getting "burned" is far less painful than putting %99.9 who pay attention to what they are clicking thru the "Are you sure ?" clicking task.

I'm sorry, but its not fair, or realistic, to ask people to pay attention to where their mouse is pointed in addition to the keyboard, joystic, screen, their target, and the guy chasing them. Real pilots don't have to deal with that. Everything in always in the same spot in their cocpit, and they don't have to, as I said before, hit the "shift" or "alt" key to change the cunction of a button.