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- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 22:38 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: Re: WinLIB/XAES Evaluation
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.804849@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca said:
- >
- >This is hard to tell. Is it possible to overflow the AES buffer while
- >you are _not_ waiting for an event? If you tell evnt_multi that you are
- >waiting for MU_KEYBD, and then it returns a keyboard event, will the AES
- >put another keyboard event in the pipe while you are still processing the
- >last one?
-
- Yes AFAIK.
-
-
- millert@cs.csee.usf.edu said:
- >
- >Any features which make the display confusing, overload the user with too
- >many options to choose from, or simply wouldn't get used, yet it's included.
-
- I would appreciate it if you download GEMBench 3.4x Tim, and tell me which
- features of my toolkit you find confusing.
-
- >The Germans seems to have this tendancy toward making the user interface
- >as complicated as possible. They will give the user too many options.
- >Perhaps 90% was an exageration... perhaps not.
-
- I disagree, I find most German program so easy to use, even if they are in
- German which I don't speak.
-
- >I am a technical writer and technical editor. I am a fanatic about
- >making certain that documentation is good. Mine will be good.
-
- My library (written with Dave Nutkins of HiSoft) comes with a printed
- manual, many example programs and a tutorial.
-
- >I'm talking about abandoning the way GEM functions. For example, the
- >closer should not pop up a menu (except in circumstances where it's
- >really useful, but let's not make a habbit of it). This change in style
- >will do nothing but confuse and frustrate the user because he has to
- >contend with another dialog.
-
- I agree.
-
- >A LITTLE? Are you kidding? First I'm going to have to decode the file,
- >then I'm going to have to translate the codes into what gets displayed,
- >then I'm going to have to figure out where (and in what character space)
-
- If your toolkit works well, this is very easy to implement. Using my
- toolkit, all I have to do is scan the list of shortcuts in the file, then
- use menu_text() to change the shortcuts in the menus. Done!
-
- >Cute. Very cute. Ctrl-A is the only combination that I have ever hit
-
- Tim, could we forget this CTRL+A business. If you wish, put it to a vote,
- but I think we had enough of it.
-
- >I am one of many people who have complained about Atari Works wiping out
-
- That's because AW is a pretty dodgy program. If you try Papyrus as I keep
- suggesting, you will see how CTRL+A is not dangerous at all.
-
-
- millert@cs.csee.usf.edu said:
- >
- >No, it is NOT that simple. When you click to top a window, the message
- >does not get sent until you let go of the button. You can hold the
- >button all day, and the window won't get topped until you let go of the
- >button.
-
- That is my understanding as well. I WISH there was a clean way around this
- for toolbar windows, etc.
-
- Bye,
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