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From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
Subject: Re: Digested Replies
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 01:53:00 -0600
Precedence: bulk
Hello Christian,
>As has been pointed out, the risk of data loss can be avoided. But even if
>there were something to this, changing shortcuts that are used by virtually
>every program on the ATARI and even on other platforms is simply out of the
>question. Most programmers just won't do it. Also remember that many app-
>lications on the ATARI are no longer supported, but still used, so dramatic
>changes like this will probably end with 50% of the used applications using
>the old way, the other 50% the new way. Don't do that. This also applies to
>CONTRL-U. An existing well-established standard, even if not perfectly
>designed, is better than different competing standards.
Yes! This is exactly what I like to see; people are changing existing
standards (or commonalities) much too often; no matter how odd a
keypress may seem, it should still be used if it is used in a large
segment of programs.
Another disturbing thing I have seen is people proposing how "Find"
should work; there is already an accepted minimal standard; an application
should have "Find", "Find Next". "Find Previous" is not essential, nor
is "Replace"/"Replace Next" (for some applications). People are talking
about putting "Find"/"Find Next" on the same key, though, or putting
"Find Next"/"Replace Next" on the same key (with the exact same keypress
I mean, not just a shifted variation). This does not make sense to me,
because the idea is confusing to users, non-obvious, and (the best
argument) not supported by any program available.
>In practically all GUI apps I have seen Undo (while not in a modal dialog)
>takes back the last change done to a document, even if one has switched to
>a different window. This is also what Apple's Human Interface Guidelines
>say. I think it's dangerous to make it have a different meaning depending
>on wheter a dialog is topped or not. It doesn't affect the meaning of any
>other menu commands except 'close window'.
UNDO is a dialog box may be nice (and I think that it is) but it is not
really essential. If all "Cancel" buttons have the same string (Cancel)
then Alternate+C could just as easily be used.
> Christian (R.O.M. logicware)
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Michel Forget \\ mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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