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- From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Top Ten Things I'd Like to See in Think Pasal
- Message-ID: <de19-240792042122@mac43-pg2.umd.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 08:46:41 GMT
- References: <a69376dd@fairgate.uucp> <1992Jul23.110356.14261@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- In article <1992Jul23.110356.14261@rhrk.uni-kl.de>,
- kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
- writes in response to article <a69376dd@fairgate.uucp>,
- paul@fairgate.uucp (Paul Robichaux) who wrote:
-
- > |>4) A window tiling menu that doesn't bring up a dialog box.. maybe
- > |> a picture menu or something.
- >
- > I don't use this function very often, but I think the dialog box is acceptable.
-
- You must have a very large screen, or perhaps dont use objects, I am
- constantly useing the tiler, and find the dialog box annoyingly slow.
-
-
- > |>6) In general, give us more command key accelerators. As bad as
- > |> MS Word is, at least it offers a plethora of function key support
- > |> for the keyboard-abled.
- >
- > Why don't you take ResEdit and make them on your own? There are lots of
- > letters left to make command keys of.
-
- What makes you think the program (any program for that matter) will
- function after this? Symantec uses a custom MDEF for some of the menus
- (they dont reflect under l->r scripts the way MDEF 0 does).
-
-
- > |>7) Let me rearrange the contents of the Lightsbug window. I don't ever
- > |> want to see the heap display, and I hate having to drag borders each
- > |> time to restore my preferred layout.
- >
- > Right, especially owners of compact macs have difficulties when working
- > with that large debugger window. There should be a possibilty to make it
- > smaller.
-
- Unfortunately, most of it is needed during a typical debug session. The
- only change I would make, would be to consolidate the icons in the left
- edge, and fix them to a non-shrinking, (?scrollable) strip. The present
- setup establishes a minimum height for each of the 3 horizontal panes which
- is excessive in some debugging situations.
-
-
- > |>8) Let me "Add File" at a specific point in the project. I guess what
- > |> I'm really asking for is an insertion point in the project window.
- >
- > Hmmm. How often do you add a file to your project? Since this function
- > isn't used very often, I don't think your suggestion is a "must".
-
- The point is not how often it is used, but how painfull it is to do when
- one has a large project to add to. Think P 'Adds' the file to the end of
- whatever segment is at the end (? beginning, sorry, I forget) of the list.
- I usually drag the segment to the end, then add the file(s), then shift to
- the build order view and drag the file(s) (again) to their proper build
- position. This is a timeconsuming pain when you already have 125 TCL
- source files/libraries/TBinterface files as overhead.
-
- --
-
- Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
-