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- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 18:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: Pre-vote proposal
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <memo.424034@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- >Also, what about my idea to assign Redraw Window to Ctrl-A? You know
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- This will have to go for a separate vote. I don't think redrawing requires
- a shortcut per app. The OS should supply this feature. Mag!X does.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I agree with this, but then again, I always thought that Select-All
- didn't need a short-cut either. I'm fighting to have Select-All moved to
- something else to make sure that people DON'T use Ctrl-A. I figure that
- not much else is harmless enough to be assigned to Ctrl-A, so you might
- as well use Ctrl-A for something totally harmless like Redraw.
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- >As an aside, I fear that whoever writes an amodal dialog handler for us
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- This is a problem. I recommend we discuss this in the future. Programs
- like CoNnect, Papyrus and Edith could serve as a model.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The point is that it needs to be easy for people to interface with... not
- much more than a structure and a little more to pass to functions...
- open, close, handle_event, and a structure that contains things that GEM
- doesn't handle like underlining. Whatever... we'll cover that later, but
- people need to think hard about what they do.
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- Oh, and people need to make the code READABLE! I've seen people write C
- code that was so far removed from the normal formatting that I simply
- could not read it. And a comment for every line is nothing but
- distracting, while no comments can actually be worse. But we'll cover
- this later.
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