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- From: khollis@bitsink.gbdata.com (K. Hollis)
- Subject: Re: Reader's Digest
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 12:27:15 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <m0qEocK-0001IIC@sdf.lonestar.org> from "Evan K. Langlois" at Jun 17, 94 07:50:00 pm
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- > 2 - Hacking Key Repeat is also pretty stupid!
-
- I totally agree.
-
- > 3 - Underlining Buttons : Who says this is standard? I hate underlines.
-
- I think you're missing the point of the underlines, though. Underlines
- and all of the other things the programmers add are there to make things
- look nicer inside dialog boxes instead of plain and dull like normal
- GEM. You're forgetting that GEM is totally functional and that users
- can add whatever they choose. Personally, I prefer WYSIWYG resources (which
- E_GEM's resources are NOT) but then that's my opinion.
-
- > 4 - As to MultiTOS being slower than TOS 1.0, first, I think you are wrong.
-
- It's true. It's slower than TOS 1.0. The reason being that MiNT is
- running in the background, and TOS has to rely on MiNT and has to GO
- through MiNT to do things. That alone makes it slow.
-
- > 5 - This crap about the "!!" is useless. Anything other than 0 is TRUE.
-
- Why do you say this? The 0 is False, 1 is True, and usually, -1 means an
- internal failure. At least, this is a standard I use, and XWindows programmers
- all over the world use.
-
- > Now, how I feel about keyboard short-cuts and how others feel are different.
- > The APP_DEFS.INF file is the best way. THAT is where the standard should
- > be, and the default entries in APP-DEFS.INF can be decided by the list
- > or by the programmer. You could even set the way block selection works,
- > and what happens when you type something when a block is selected (overwrite
- > or insert, or deselect).
-
- Good point.
-
- > This file is the best method.
-
- Surely... (laughs) REad over what I've written. :)
-
- -- Ken
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