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- From: hguijt@nijmegen.inter.nl.net (H.Guijt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Say *perhaps* to fat binaries
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 19:32:00 GMT
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- Stephan Schreiber (septh@club-internet.fr) wrote:
- >Well, IMHO this is true... but only in theory. In practice, it's nearly
- >impossible for an unexpected requester to pop up "by surprise" just because
- >requesters usually appear in response to a user action. So, if you've just
- >been selecting a menu item or clicking on a gadget, you can't be
- >simultaneoulsy typing some text in another application... Exec may be
- >multatisking, but users are not.
-
- Duh! I beg to differ. I was doing a 70-odd disk backup, and typing a letter
- at the same time. Because the Amiga is multitasking this is not at all a
- problem. However, around disk 43 I had a faulty disk and the computer popped
- up a requester saying something like
-
- "Your disk is faulty"
- "Retry" "Abort"
-
- The requester stole the input focus, and because I have ReqTools installed
- it reacted to the 'N' key (which happened to activate the abort option).
- Sure enough, my backup aborted and I could start over again.
-
- If the requester had not answered to the 'n' key I wouldn't have had any
- problem.
-
- >Of course, there's always the possibilty for the requester to appear after
- >some delay, but the case is quite rare.
-
- Perhaps for you, but definitely not for me. Don't you ever start a search in
- Diskmaster? It pops a requester when it finds what you are looking for. This
- can take some time, and I want to be able to use my keyboard during that
- time. Term is another example of a program that pops up requesters from time
- to time (although it doesn't automatically give them input focus; excellent
- design decision!).
-
- >> No, Return or Esc or whatever comes to mind is not, repeat *NOT*, an
- >> appropriate key mapping for answering requesters per default, on a
- >> multitasking platform. The AmigaOS programmers did it right.
- >
- >Maybe a combination like right-Amiga-Return or left-Amiga-Esc is the
- >solution?
- >Nevertheless it looks much better than left-Amiga-C and left-Amiga-V.
-
- Read The Docs. You are on csa.programmer so you should have them. The system
- reserves the left Amiga key for system things. Right amiga return can
- therefore be claimed by any application.
-
- Anyway, what's wrong with LAmiga-V,B? They are easily typable, memorable
- enough (V is for left gadget, B for right gadget), they don't change when
- the gadget text changes, and if nothing else they provide a nice bit of
- discoverability(1).
-
- >> When you obviously are only accustomed to monotasking environments,
- >> please first learn a bit more about the circumstances to be considered
- >> on a Real Multitasking Platform.
- >
- >As I said before: users are *NOT* multitasking. That should not be
- >forgotten,
- >neither...
-
- Then you are not using your Amiga to the fullest of its potential. I am
- doing lots of things at the same time, all the time. I am happy I have a
- computer that can keep up with what I want to do at any given point of time.
-
-
- Bye,
-
- Hans
-
-
- (1) That's a feature you wish you had learned about 2 years earlier, and it
- is in fact in the docs but not in any place where you would look.
-