Subject: Re: Parent button...
Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 10:46:34 -0700
From: Lesk@cc.snow.edu (Lesk)

>Jeff Hanna said:
>
>>Has anyone else out there noticed that the 'parent' button on Impulse's
>>file requester (Imagine 3.0:Amiga) doesn't do ANYTHING?
>>
>>I accidentally clicked in my textures directory when I meant to click into
>>my objects directory. "No problem," I thought to myself. "I'll just parent
>>out and click on objects."
>>
>>click, click, click... NOTHING I was still in the textures directory. I had
>>to use the Disks button and then work my way back down to my objects
>>directory.
>>
>>This is silly, stupid, and should've been caught in beta-testing.
>>
>
>    do pay attention at the back! :) the parent button has always been
>dodgy, even in v2.0! if you go down one directory, it wont let you come
>back up the directory path, but if you go down two directories, it will
>only let you come up one directory. seems like you just cant get back
>up past the first directory. very poor, they *SHOULD HAVE USED ASL!!!*,
>along with screen database stuff and more... :(:(:(
>
>    steve
>

Just a note: using a "/" will move you back up the tree. ASL would be nice.
Impulse should realize though that if we are complaining about 'trivial'
things then 3.0 must overall be pretty good eh!


                                        Render Ho!
                                           Lesk




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