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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
Message-ID: <6594@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 19 Oct 89 16:43:47 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <17943@bellcore.bellcore.com> john@aardvark.UUCP (John Letourneau) writes:
> Well, my $.02 as a NeWS user are like this...with a 3 button mouse, you
> have 3 choices of things->standard is i)selection ii)position iii)menu.

What does "position" do? How do you select-multiple without a "perform"
button? A (DO-IT) gadget? No default action?

> Stan Switzer and I talked this one over and using the time element allowed us
> to include i-a)stretch! i-b)inverse! Basicly what Stan hacked up was
> to use the selection button to "canvas-to-top" on the border with a
> "quick-click", "canvas-to-bottom" on the border with a "double-quick-click"
> and "constrained/un-constrained-stretching" with "click-hold".

Try using 'click' as a toggle: if it's obscured, bring it to front. Otherwise
drop it to back. This will give you the same semantics for obscured canvasses,
and save a click on unobscured ones. This is what the new Amiga windowing
system is supposed to do (haven't seen it yet :-<).

Click-hold is a different matter... you don't need to use the time domain:
just see if the current position changes while the button is down. Doesn't
everyone do it this way?

What does 'selecting' a border usually do?
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