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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>
Precedence: bulk
In-Reply-To: <9407132328.AA18332@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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.
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.
>>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?
>If you use MultiTOS, you'll soon become tired of topping windows if you
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.
>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
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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