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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: 18 Mar 1996 15:50:35 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Martin Frost (mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk) wrote:
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- : In article <2477.6641T698T2915@actcom.co.il>, arielmag@actcom.co.il (Ariel Magnum) writes:
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- : >3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others (toolsdeamon)
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- : I don't know toolsdaemon, but it already is very easy to add menu items to the
- : tools menu. I believe the relevant function is AddAppMenuItemA.
-
- The only thing about that is that it is only used to go BACK to an already
- running application, there is no way of starting an app quickly from the
- menu and unless you use toolsdaemon you can only use one menu strip. It is
- time the os did this, from version 1.3 of the os and up people have been
- hacking in solutions to do it.
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- : >6. Impliment Font densetive gui routines preferably MUI.I know its painfully
- : > slow at times but perhaps written in assembler and using RTG will become
- : > faster.A tottaly configurable GUI engine could push the Amiga far ahead
- : > of its competitiors.I must say that most gadgtools guis look very bad
- : > best examples are the preferences programs.
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- : What's wrong with the preferences programs? I suppose they can be a bit
- : small on high-res screens, but I still prefer speed over (dubious) aesthetics.
- : The speed of the Amiga's GUI is one of its best points. Throwing it away with
- : some gimmick like MUI is not my idea of a smart move, and sticking such a
- : cycle-waster in the OS, where I can't delete it, would be just stupid.
-
- I think the point is that some preferences programs are not responding to
- changes in the font preferences settings, if you set the system font to be
- something you want at least the system programs to use it.
-
- Regards,
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- BM
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