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- Subject: Digest
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 10:25:11 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
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- Waldi:
- > I don't understand why everyone, except me, wants to limit the content of
- > the file to ASCII. What's wrong with character codes > 127 ? Why repeat
- > the mistake made by RFC 821 and many other standards/guidelines?
-
- By `ASCII file', I only mean `text file'. This could obviously include
- any >128 character, especially in Euro s/w. This brings up the subject
- of language in APP-DEFS.SYS, which is beyond our scope.
-
- > The (IMO) most flexible approach is to leave locating and parsing stuff to
- > a TSR, which offers a set of well-defined functions through a cookie.
-
- Agreed. I would especially like to see value-conversion placed in the
- TSR. eg. a function `Give me a 4-byte date for Cal.Birthday' would
- parse dates in various localized formats. Such functionality could be
- added incrementally.
-
-
- Various:
- > ALT-...: Redraw window
-
- This is getting very appl-specific. Only a few rare programs would need
- this. As an example, a spreadsheet could bind that to Recalculate if it
- was using manual calculation.
-
-
- > home - nothing
- >...
- >because "home" is near the arrows (partially between up-arrow and
- >right-arrow) and can be hit by mistake.
-
- This is just plain silly. The only time a key combination should be
- avoided for the `can be hit by mistake' reason is if the keypress causes
- (directly or indirectly) irrevocable harm. You go to the top of the
- document? Big deal. Page back down. Next, computers keyboards will
- have a `I mean it' button that you have to keep pressed or else all
- other keys are ignored. Besides, a simple `Go Back' feature can fix this.
-
-
- Christian Nieber:
- > The following is an excerpt from the NeXTStep User Interface Guidelines
- >...
- > The guidelines place keyboard alternatives into three groups--reserved,
- > required, and recommended.
-
- I suggest we adopt the same divisions. This will cut down on contention
- in this list, as we all agree that `Control-O' is `Open', but not all
- agree that `Control-F' should only be `Find'.
-
- Ofir, could you do the first partitioning?
-
- > [Program to modify RSC file shortcuts]
-
- This is a fine idea:
-
- - It is certainly simpler than the full-blown APP-DEFS.SYS file.
- - It avoids the issue of language in the APP-DEFS.SYS file.
- - It follows an existing convention (shortcuts in RSC).
- - It follows an existing GEM std (RSC files for UI config).
-
- There is no reason why this couldn't be used for non-menu shortcuts, either.
- Just have a MENU in the RSC that isn't actually used, but is just there as
- a short-cut definition. I guess even non-key configurations could be done
- this way (though it is getting impractical, I would suggest).
-
- So. Who has RSC I/O code?
-
- --
- Warwick
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