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- Subject: Re: Team AMIGA Wish List
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 12:19:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <68772020@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de>
- From: humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich)
-
- nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk wrote about "Re: Team AMIGA Wish List" on
- "15-Mar-1996 13:51:12" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
-
-
- > >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.
-
- So ? This was what I was talking about ;-) I just read a complex article on
- that, I like it.
-
-
- > >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,
-
- Because I just could have that already. ScreenFool etc. But I hate to hace
- an extra prog in mem for things like that. Why not putting it into ROM ?
- For tasks, like opening screens, it sucks to waste memory.
-
- > >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"
-
- No, you did *not* understand ! This one launches an extra task or process.
- Rx is a command itself. I am talking of a shell, that executes ARexx
- commands without submitting a port, for example. Try that one, for example:
- If you enter
- Shell.> rx 'do i = 1 TO 2; say Hello; end'
- you get
- +++ Error 26 in line 1: Missing or unexpected END
- Command returned 10/26: Missing or unexpected END
-
- Have you ever heard about WShell bythe creator of ARexx ? Once ARexx is
- more powerfull and better integrated (even better ;-)) this might be cool.
-
- Mixing of DOS and ARexx is possible already by doing a SHELL or ADDRESS
- COMMAND. But that way,it even would be more easy.
-
- > >All windows shall be openable by CLI. OpenWindow
- > >HD1:Tools/MyTools/WhatIHaveDoneSoFar
- >
- > Better done via a WB ARexx port, see above.
-
- Yes,this was what I was thinkin of.
-
- > 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.
-
- No, it is not. If the Amigas are shipped with 3 button mice, who cares for
- people without them ? Rught now, I have to start commodities for
- special handling. This is no part of WBPrefs.
-
- > >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.
-
- Just a waste of time and money. Nuke all A500, 600 and 2000. I mean: These
- are out of date, and all you need you can get from 3rd party. Just make
- sure, the new OS updates for 68000' machines are usable here as well.
-
- If it would be me, who decides, I would not support any other machine than
- A3000,A1200 and A4000 anymore.
-
- --
- Ciao, Andreas
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