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You are thinking of a 'dialog box'.
by noctune 4y ago
You are thinking of a 'dialog box'.
- aliswe 4y agoOr Dialog for short
- stevesimmons 4y agoWhere in the world are you? I am in the UK and I have never heard 'dialog' refer to a dialogue box.
- tom_ 4y agoI am in the uk and have never heard "dialog" used by British speakers any other way. My experience has near universally that everybody that knows the term spells it "dialog", same as nobody spells "disk" with a c when it comes to the rectangular computer variety.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI've never seen the words "dialogue box". If I'm speaking of drama, that's dialogue; but but an interactive box in a computer UI is a "dialog". In the same way, the instructions controlling a computer are a "program"; the TV drama with the dialogue is a "programme". /me British English speaker (obv)
- tom_ 4y agoCheck out GIMP - its window menu includes an entry for "Dockable Dialogues", at least on macOS. Might be close enough? I don't think I've ever seen anybody else spell it that way though! (This would also, if you squint a bit, serve as an example of "dialog" being short for dialog box.)
- TotempaaltJ 4y agoFrom Wikipedia: > The dialog box (also called dialogue box (non-U.S. English), ... This is a British government website, so "dialogue box" might not be uncommon.
- tom_ 4y agoI don't think I've ever seen anybody call it a "dialogue box". Feels like at this point, along with "disk", "dialog" is a separate word with a separate (but not unrelated) meaning.
- KineticLensman 4y agoAs a Brit, I would never use 'dialogue box' (and don't recall ever seeing it) Some of us distinguish between program (software) and programme (a collection of projects)