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Subject: Re: ST-Guide
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 11:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <9407210344.AA12462@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at Jul 21, 94 01:44:32 pm
Message-Id: <9407211115.ad23894@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
Precedence: bulk
What you wrote:
> Is there some standard way of lynching software authors, and does anyone
> know Pradip's address? (Atari Works uses forms for almost everything,
> including the printing progress dialog!!! Forget multitasking with AW).
I think you have to go visit them, and slap them real hard with the
guidelines for writing multitasking-ready GEM applications.
> Using a form for progress is MAJORLY BAD, because it is just that time
> that the user will want to switch to some other application.
>
> In fact, gaudy progress meters are a bad idea in general.
IMHO they provide valuable feed-back to the user, ie, "Is my program
crashed, or just taking an hour to <foo>?"
It's not really safe to use a spinning cursor or something, especially
if your program is stupid and doesn't see if it's got focus or not...
> ... and can we vote on the short-cuts now and move on? (to app-defs.sys)
Sounds good; what happened to the ^A vote?
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