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- From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.133828.12379@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:38:27 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <MebEmeK00awP4Wh0tl@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug28.095413.26495@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug28.095413.26495@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- > In article <MebEmeK00awP4Wh0tl@andrew.cmu.edu> sm86+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier) writes:
- >>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.atari.st: 27-Aug-92 GEM.. what needs to
- >>be fixe.. Mr Stephen R Usher@ucl.a (3256)
- >>
- >>> From what I've heard, the new version of GEM for the FALCON seems a great
- >>> improvement. I hope that at least some of the following gripes I have with
- >>> GEM are fixed, and the rest to be fixed ASAP if the Atari machines are to
- >>> get anywhere:-
- >>
- >>> (1) Response time for mouse button presses.
- >>
- >>Well, the same problem exist on Macs. And it is not so easily corrected: the
- >>problem is with the double click: how could you know at the first click
- >>if there
- >>will be a second one or not ? You HAVE to wait. I know, you don't need to wait
- >>when the click is long: it means it is a 'click-n drag' and that could
- >>be improved !
- >
- > Why not just stop looking for the double click as soon as the mouse starts
- > moving? This would mean that click-and-relocate response time would be
- > acceptable but nothing else will change.
-
- The only problem with this is the fact that you would have to hold
- the mouse still for double-clicks. This would slow me down, since I've
- gotten really sloppy on starting programs, but it's faster.
-
- Later.......
-
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