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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: mush bugs
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.072533.7004@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 07:25:33 GMT
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In article <12573@ogicse.ogi.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
>In article <1990Oct3.025026.3297@mlb.semi.harris.com> del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) writes:
>} In article <1990Oct2.170734.17606@cbnewsu.att.com> mark@cbnewsu.att.com (Mark Horton) writes:
>} >When replying, if I forget to press "send" (or miss it) and then press
>} >"close", the reply window goes away and so does the reply button!  I
>} >found that by getting a menu on any random message and selecting "reply"
>} >I can get it back (although it won't reply) but there's no visible icon
>} >or any other normal way to get it back.
>} 
>} I get bitten by this occasionally, too.  I find it annoying to discover
>} that I never sent out the message that I composed several hours ago.
>} An easier way to get the compose frame back is to hit the Compose button.
>} Mush will whine that you have to finish your first letter and will pop
>} up the compose frame.
>
>We've discussed having a variable or some such that would send when
>you close the frame, automatically.  But there are times when you might
>*want* to close the frame without sending ... sorry if it isn't obvious
>enough that hitting <Compose> again will bring back the window ... I
>suppose supplying some kind of compose window icon would be better.

I don't believe that it is possible to close a subframe to an icon in
Sunview.  Another possibility would be to make both the Reply and
Compose buttons invisible, and make a "Continue Editing" button
visible when editing is in progress and the compose subframe has
been closed.  This new button would open the compose subframe and
not print the warning message.

While we are on this subject, I'd like to mention that a mushtool
user here mentioned that it would be convenient to have a way to
open the compose frame to compose message while leaving the main
frame closed to an icon.  It sounds like a great idea to me since
it can take quit a while to open the tool in order to just hit the
Compose button.  I often find myself just using Mail from a shelltool
window instead.  Probably the cleanest way to do this is by creating
a new toplevel frame menu.
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Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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