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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Ofir's digest 11.06
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 01:29:18 -0600
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-
- Hello Ofir,
-
- [>In message <Pine.3.89.9406111033.C2848-0100000@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>,
- [>rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu said:
-
- [>I am not aware of any changes to the clip standard. My GEM docs from 89
- [>are the same as the 93 COmpendium. We had this discussion before on
- [>Usenet. Non-standard implementation is one of the reason I stopped using
- [>STalker (although I paid full price for it) and moved on to use CoNnect.
-
- I, also, never knew about any changes to the standard. When was STalker
- released, though? Perhaps Rick Flashman meant that the document had
- been changed prior to 1989?
-
- [>It depends on your code, it will take me about 1/2 an hour to make my
- [>Voice Mail program compliant to the new standard. I also believe that if
- [>the standard is established, users will come to expect programs to use it,
- [>if you want your products to sell in Germany (and the UK market is also
- [>moving in this direction) you will have to produce programs that follow
- [>the guidelines (if you can decide which guidelines to follow :-).
-
- The actual changes to the code are simple, I'm sure. For a business to
- get there needs to the programmer, wait while he does it, update the
- documentation, change the packaging, get the program back, duplicate
- the disks, and other stuff that commercial developers probably have
- to do wold cost money, though. (Things like this make me glad I
- develop Shareware...)
-
- [>I fully agree with you. We are currently debating the format of the
- [>configuration file. Your comments will be useful.
-
- I thought that this had been decided. Warwick (?) posted some source
- code that showed how to read the file... It looked pretty complex... :)
-
- [>In message <2df65b90249e@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca said:
- [>>
- [>>No; here is an example of what "Abandon" does. Assume that I have a text
- [>>file on a disk. It contains the words "This is a text file.". I load
- [>>the text file into my editor, and change the sentence to something
- [>>else. I decide that I want the original back, so I press Control-H.
- [>>The changes are thrown away and the document is reloaded. It does
- [>>no close the window, iconify it, or do anything to it except restore
- [>>the document in it to its original form.
- [>
- [>I see what you mean. HiSoft call this revert. I'm not sure if a keyboard
- [>shortcut is required fro such an option. Comments?
-
- In this case, HiSoft is non-standard. All the programs that I have seen
- which support this feature do call it "Abandon". i think Windows programs
- also have this option. As for needing a keyboard equivalent, I would
- say yes. I use the feature at least three times a day... (usually when
- I do something stupid like insert a block a few more times than I wanted
- to because I was slow to let go of the Control+V combination).
-
- [>In message <P8874@K.maus.de>, Michael_Nolte@k.maus.de said:
- [>>
- [>>Ofir Gal:
- [>>>CTRL D - Abandon Window (iconify or place in menu)
- [>>I'd prefer CTRL-H.
- [>
- [>Which should we use then? CTRL+D or CTRL+H? Are there any programs that
- [>implement this feature? Maybe Wilfried can tell us why he wants CTRL+D
- [>since it was his idea.
-
- In this case, I think he just meant "iconize window". Nothing else would
- really make sense for what was written...
-
- [>Bye,
- [>Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
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