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From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Shortcuts file and other digested material
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 11:56:12 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 28, 94 09:32:33 am
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Warwick Allison said:
  > Anyway, I use it all the time.  Right-click pastes, BTW.
  >
Yes, I know, but I did want an activate button to. See below though.

  > Just put a small icon next to the text field.  Hidden functions like this
  > are very frustrating.  The user will probably not notice it in the manual
  > and be forever typing in filenames, all the time swearing at the program.
It does rather clutter things though, especially since every widget can have
an activate function attached to it. Its not too bad for a single line text
fields, but for multi line text, or scrolledLists it looks damn silly (ie,
I've tried it).

  > Visible functionality is very important.  Double-click on objects should
  > only be shortcuts, so unless you have a menu item `open file selector on
  > currently selected object', double-click textfield fsel is bad.
  >
Agreed, it should be a shortcut. Unfortunately I haven't finished the menu
package yet, so the existing apps I've done don't work that way. In future
though they will, with the possible exception of type in paths in prompt
type dialogs.

This is what I'm currently thinking:
Left button as in X
Right button over a text entry area does paste
Right button over a widget label does an activate. In this case whenever
the mouse moves over such an activate area it will change form to an icon
of a mouse with the right button highlighted (black as opposed to white)

Kev
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