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- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 02:39 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: Re: Buttons Buttons Buttons
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.646381@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: <9407132328.AA18332@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- In message <9407132328.AA18332@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
- >>2. Holding the right button allows clicking in background windows with the
- >> left button, very useful and also the standard behaviour. Works very
- >> well in the desktop and Papyrus is another example where you can move
- >> the cursor around and even select text while in the font selector.
- >
- >This is an incredible waste of a button. It also violates the principle
- >of not requiring the user to hold down multiple buttons to perform an
- >action.
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- I totally disagree, I wouldn't want Papyrus to work in any other way. It
- doesn't violate anything, this is the way the desktop has behave for the
- last 5 years.
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- >>3. Allow the right button to be used on background windows without topping
- >
- >Totally confusing. All you need to do is allow the user to use the window
- >title, or any unused area of the window to top the window. In an extreme
- >case, also allow a meta key, such as Alt-Ctrl to make the left button top
- >the window.
-
- Why? And what is an 'unused' part of a window?
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- >If you use MultiTOS, you'll soon become tired of topping windows if you
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- I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that poping menus with
- the right button is more useful. Under MTOS you can use WF_BEVENT which
- works well for toolbars, etc.
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- >The sad thing is that many Atari users currently use exactly this.
- >That's why so many programs only run is certain ST resolutions. But
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- What has mouse button response to do with screen resolutions? All the
- programs I have run happily in 880*656 and still manage to follow this
- standard mouse behaviour.
-
- Bye,
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