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- Subject: Re: Dialog Box Proposal Part 1
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 20:21:23 +0100
- From: Craig.Graham@newcastle.ac.uk
- Precedence: bulk
-
- > In response to Ken Hollis's proposal:
- >
- > o Handling Sliders: While real-time sliders are certainly preferable in most
- > circumstances, and pretty trivial to do with Geneva, they are nowhere as
- > easy to program as normal graf_slidebox() sliders. Having put this into
- > Geneva, I know full well the kinds of things that can come up when moving
- > from the ghost-type of slider to real-time ones. This is something that
- > should be left out of any list of "standards."
-
- I have to agree here. They are easier to use, but harder to program.
- BUT - I don't think that they are tremendously difficult to program, so
- any recent extended GEM library should support them for scrolling lists
- in dialogs and popups.
-
- > o Editable objects: Changing the mouse shape every time you move over an
- > editable field is a waste of time. Considering how little the mouse actually
- > affects editable fields (it positions the cursor and that's all) it's not
- > really necessary and ends up being distracting. In Windows it's a little
- > more understandable, since they use the mouse to select a block of text in
- > the editable field (but it's still distracting.)
-
- But some applications DO allow select/cut/paste from inside an edittable
- text field using the mouse (eg. the Myriad MiNT only desktop).
- I think that the mouse cursor should be changed to reflect any object
- it can effect (as it does under Xwindows/Motif).
-
- > o Clipboard location: There is already a standard method which should be
- > used. This allows people to set the directory with a CPX. For the average
- > user, anything involving an environmental variable is always a Bad Idea.
- > Most people just don't understand what they are.
-
- The clipboard CPX's I've tried all crash on a falcon......
-
- > Dan Wilga
- > Gribnif Software
-
- Hi - I thought you were quite well informed when I spoke to you
- at the Newcastle Atari Show......have you got Geneva to run on top
- of the MiNT kernal yet? (So I can use my Minix partition under Geneva).
-
- Craig.
-
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