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Change functionality that relies on pop-up windows to use overlays #219

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The "export DOT" and "export PNG" buttons cause new pop-up windows to appear 
with the contents of the model dot/png files. However, many users have pop-up 
windows disabled by default and will not be able to access this functionality.

In Chrome, a user might notice that a pop-up window is blocked (a little icon 
appears in the address bar). But, in Safari pop-up windows are silently blocked 
so the user is not even aware of what might have caused the functionality to 
break.

To avoid the above brittle nature of pop-up windows, we should instead use 
overlays. We already use overlays for the welcome message, and to list the list 
of mined invariants. We should re-use overlays for model exports, as well.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bestchai on 19 Feb 2012 at 5:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This issue was closed by revision c027fa958513.

Original comment by bestchai on 20 Feb 2012 at 7:18