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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
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>Also, what about my idea to assign Redraw Window to Ctrl-A? You know
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
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.
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.