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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
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Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap!
Keywords: Wingz, macros, defaults
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Date: 16 Nov 90 18:10:00 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.025616.878@rodan.acs.syr.edu> patrinos@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Anthony J. Patrinos) writes:
>
>It's fairly easy in Wingz to write macros (either using Hyperscript or
>recording the keyboard and mouse actions).  Writing a macro to
>globally change the font attributes and saving it as Startup would
>make it be invoked every time you start the program. 

...but Wingz doesn't have a global font attribute.  Or if they do, they don't
know about, and haven't told me when I've called...

>The menus in Wings are fully customizable, so if you don't like them
>you can change their positions, add new ones or remove the ones you
>don't need.  The manual has examples of how this can be done. (Again,
>saving everything in the Startup macro sheet makes the changes
>essentially become defaults.)

...inclusion of customizable menus is a negative sign to me, in a number of
ways.  It tends to signal that the program isn't well-designed enough to
supply well-done menus on its own.  The feature itself isn't a problem; it's
merely that its inclusion tends to worry me.  Witness Microsoft and MSWord.

 - Lee
| William Lee Nussbaum, Jr.
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