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- From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
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- Subject: Re: New MultiTOS PC (Atari Falcon)
- Message-ID: <DBH.92Jul23142918@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 14:29:18 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:27:55 GMT
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- In article <BJDBoB28w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- wrote:
-
- >Believe it or not, some of us don't want a 3 button mouse.
-
- It doesn't take an expert in HCI to appreciate which part of the human
- body has the greatest amount of motor neuron processing power devoted
- to it - the hands. Given that, Apple's (or was it Xerox's ?) and
- Mathew's choice of a one-button mouse seems most restrictive. Like a
- one-button piano. :-)
-
- >Especially not without standardisation over which button does what.
-
- Another win for RISC OS! (And pianos :-) I was particularly struck by
- this when I downloaded the MineField game recently. I knew
- "instinctively" what the three mouse buttons would do. (Don't get
- this game BTW, it will ruin your life :-).
-
- Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower) asked:
-
- >Do menus stay on screen when you take your finger of the mouse?
-
- and Mathew replied:
-
- >Better than that, I can tear off menus and use them as tool palettes.
-
- I like this idea a lot and do it for dialog boxes in my programs. The
- simplest way is to open the box as a normal sub-menu type window if
- the user moves over its arrow in the parent menu item or to open it as
- a permanent window if the user clicks its parent item. Slightly
- non-standard but simple (no "pins" or extra options required) and VERY
- useful. Not so easy for sub-menus though (no close button, no window
- handle etc.).
- --
- Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Does this question have an answer?
-