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From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: Ofir's digest 18.06
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 02:06:20 -0600
Precedence: bulk
Hello Ofir,
In message <m0qEocK-0001IIC@sdf.lonestar.org>, ekl@sdf.lonestar.org said:
>>
>>3 - Underlining Buttons : Who says this is standard? I hate underlines.
>
>It IS standard.
Agreed.
>>Bold could be OK, but not Underline. Underlines are always done poor and
>>hacked, either like STZIP which writes all the underlines, redraws teh
>
>Not true, they work perfectly. STZIP is the only one I know of that is a
>mess.
Underlining is easy to do; it is simply a matter of telling the AES that
certain objects in your dialog box are user-defined. Then when the AES
calls your function to draw the object, you draw the little underline
and away you go. It will be drawn at the same time as the rest of the
dialog box. ST-Zip has a lot of redraw problems; using it as the basis
for a discussion about redraws is not the greatest idea.
>>I strongly agree with that principle, but would suggest:
>>
>> Ctrl-F = Find (then find next)
>> Shift-Ctrl-F = Find previous
>> Ctrl-R = Replace (then replace next)
>> Shift-Ctrl-R = Replace previous
>
>Non-standard and I can't see how this will work.
I agree. This is not only non-standard, but confusing. Nobody would
be able to figure this out just by looking at the menu bar. Users
would have to read the documentation (and not many do that).
>And what do we do about all the German programs?
We should follow the german standard in this case, I think. Most
current programs (not all, but most) are being developed in Germany.
By forcing the use of the non-german keypresses for close window
and cycle window, we are only increasing the gap between our
programs and german programs. (Not to mention that this is a case
of a dangerous option being selected by accident; cycle windows is
harmless but closing a window by accident (even if the program stops
to ask for confirmation) is really annoying.
>Bye,
>Ofir ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk
--
Michel Forget \\ mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Electric Storm Software \\ ess@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca