Message boxes are part of the ordinary pain the user has to face daily while using his computer. One should strive to avoid them whenever possible: a good message box is a dead message box! Asa Raskin wrote a great article on the subject: "Never use a warning when you mean undo". (...) Sometimes you have to resort to message boxes, maybe it is too late in the development cycle to introduce an undo feature, or the action you are about to perform cannot be undone or because you really need a clu More

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