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- From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Team AMIGA Wish List
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 13:51:12 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Services
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- humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich) wrote:
- >Gemini2@cup.portal.com wrote about "Team AMIGA Wish List" on "12-Mar-1996
- >23:00:32" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
- >> *ClipBoard
-
- The Amiga has, and always had, reasonable clipboard facilities.
- The problem was that applications often didn't take full
- advantage of it. Admittedly, pre-IFFParse library, it was a
- fiddly business.
-
- >Implement something like Windows' OLE !
-
- OLE V1 works a bit like a fancy clipboard, but OLE V2 (what people
- *really* mean by OLE) is much more ambitious and sophisticated. In
- brief, it allows "in-place editing" by treating applications
- as component objects.
-
- Imagine having a document open in your word processor and wanting
- to edit a bitmap image that's on the page; you click on the image
- and your menus and toolbars turn into those of your favourite paint
- program. Click on some text and they turn back to WP menus/toolbars.
-
- This approach is document-centric rather than application-centric
- and is (supposed to be?) a more natural way of working.
-
- >> Public Screen support (thru tooltypes so programs can open behind WB)
- >
- >And a real PubScreen Manager as part of WB (a menu entry, not a program and
- >no CX !)
-
- Why not a program that you can summon from a menu entry?
- With an option to make it a commodity, so it opens quickly?
- Admittedly, WB should come with some kind of PubScreen Manager,
- but I'd rather it were replaceable, especially 'cos I've
- written one myself :-)
-
- >> *Preference settings from the Cli without opening the programs
- >
- >Give the OS a global ARexx server and the User a shell,that also can
- >directly send ARexx messages. This way this would work easily.
-
- You can already send ARexx messages from a shell:
- SYS:> rx "address PORTNAME an_arexx_command"
-
- >> *Cli command like 'openwindow HD1:' that would work from
- >> s:user-startup
- >
- >All windows shall be openable by CLI. OpenWindow
- >HD1:Tools/MyTools/WhatIHaveDoneSoFar
-
- Better done via a WB ARexx port, see above.
-
- >> *Three-button mouse support built-in to the OS
- >
- >Jep.
-
- The OS already supports 3 button mice. It's up to applications
- (eg. Workbench) to define the use of third button. A variety
- of commodities already out there let *you* define the use for
- the button. This is a much better system than requiring that
- everybody have a 3 button mouse.
-
- >> @*Service Manuals for 500, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000 series
- >
- >What the heck do you want with these old machines....?
-
- To keep'em running until AT produce a new Amiga worth serious
- consideration, price and spec-wise.
-
- --
- Nick Christie, IT Support, mailto://nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk
- Oxford University Computing Services, http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~nick
- 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Opinions expressed are my own.
- "There are no more bugs in my program." -- Anon.
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