>Hi Craig ---
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>>How do you handle the situation where the user presses Save without clearing up all the alerts?
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>That's when you almost have to put up a "Sorry, can't do that" message. But if the user has access to potential problems before commiting changes then they tend to blame themselves than the "hard to use" program.

That's what I thought, but then you may have had some really cool method of notifying the user. Personally, I'm trying to figure out how to instantiate a mallet class that will come out of the monitor and hit the user on the head.