There was never a more obnoxious showboaty in-your-face modal dialog than the OPEN LOOK popup notice (as implemented by XView and other toolkits that I won't mention out of shame), with its pointy triangular tail, that would actually violently "warp" your mouse pointer location back and forth between the originating button and the "OK" button:
The one thing OPEN LOOK did get right were the pushpins. It annoys me to see so many "modern" half-assed semi-skeuomorphic pushpins that instead of actually pushing in just remain in the "not pushed in" state, but highlight a framing box instead. It's in the name, people. It's supposed to pin the window on the screen, and how can it do that it it's just highlighted instead of actually pushing into the hole? Pushpins REALLY should safely and satisfyingly push in, not just sit there sharply pointing out at you menacingly like that. It's not rocket science so I don't understand why so many pushpins don't push in. Was there a user interface software patent on pushpins that push in?
There was never a more obnoxious showboaty in-your-face modal dialog than the OPEN LOOK popup notice (as implemented by XView and other toolkits that I won't mention out of shame), with its pointy triangular tail, that would actually violently "warp" your mouse pointer location back and forth between the originating button and the "OK" button:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/volume-7a-xview/9780937...
https://www.oreilly.com/api/v2/epubs/9780937175873/files/bg4...
https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/facetofacewithopenlook
https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/facetofacewithopenlook...
https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/facetofacewithopenlook...
Open Look modal dialogs were so disruptive they must have been inspired by the Chest Burster scene in Alien:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdBu6VAESeI
The one thing OPEN LOOK did get right were the pushpins. It annoys me to see so many "modern" half-assed semi-skeuomorphic pushpins that instead of actually pushing in just remain in the "not pushed in" state, but highlight a framing box instead. It's in the name, people. It's supposed to pin the window on the screen, and how can it do that it it's just highlighted instead of actually pushing into the hole? Pushpins REALLY should safely and satisfyingly push in, not just sit there sharply pointing out at you menacingly like that. It's not rocket science so I don't understand why so many pushpins don't push in. Was there a user interface software patent on pushpins that push in?