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- From: Leif.Schumacher@sto.mchp.sni.de (Leif Schumacher)
- Subject: Multiple-Click Multiple-Action
- Message-ID: <9301210732.AA22078@athen.sto.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:32:10 GMT
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- Chris Wood (USA: wood.muc@sni-usa.com) asked me to send
- the following query.
- ####### Multiple-Click Multiple-Action #######
-
- New to MOTIF and X-protocol, I see a general defect of
- some GUIs. Our (SNI) experts say that the X-protocol
- does not provide a solution. Can anybody help?
-
- If I click multiply on a "button", it is usually
- actioned once for each click. This is not good.
- Often the action produced by the first click changes
- the window so that the second click becomes impossible,
- or at least difficult to do. So it is silly to action
- the second click just because it comes fast.
- The user should be protected against shakey fingers,
- (or perhaps he thinks double click is needed).
-
- The widget can be programmed to avoid this, by ignoring
- some clicks. But the "right" solution is surely to set
- a window asynchronous in most cases. The X-server would
- not send to the widget, further interrupts generated
- before the widget responds. Does a window need asynchronous
- handling for type-ahead, when the keyboard is being used?
-
- Chris Wood (USA: wood.muc@sni-usa.com) (other: wood.muc@sni.de)
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