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From: gaz@eclipse.colorado.edu (Randall Gaz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP6.0: thoughts and questions
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Date: 12 Dec 90 00:59:26 GMT
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In article <4980@husc6.harvard.edu> rind@popvax.uucp (747707@d.rind) writes:
>In article <2354@bnlux0.bnl.gov> kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>>	The user interface is different, notably in that it is now mouseified,
>>with the overhead that involves. I never use a mouse, so I can not comment on
>>the ease of use, but presumably people at Borland know what works and what
>>doesnt. But as with anything new, cranks like me like to complain. I find the
>>options a little less intuitive than the old.
>
>I just installed TP 6.0 today.  I, too, prefer to work without a mouse,
>and the new interface seems less friendly (I think for reasons unrelated
>to the lack of a mouse.)
>For instance, when you go into windows (dialog boxes, etc.) off the menu
>bar, you tend to pop out to the top level after you've made a change.
>If you select the Compile menu and change the destination from Memory
>to Disk (or vice-versa) you pop back into the edit window without being 
>given a chance to select another option (such as Compile) or to see that
>your change actually took effect.  A similar problem occurs in
>the Options menu where after you've altered one option you don't get
>a chance to change any others.
>The 5.x interface always seemed to do exactly what I expected from the
>first time I used it.  I'd be interested to know what other people think.

I totally agree that the interface on Turbo Pascal 6 ( and Turbo C++ )
is not very good.  

Other problems with it:

They removed the pick list. I know that it is now multi - window, but the
	pick list would still be usefull.

The Dialog boxes are really bad. The Tab must be used to move through
	the different fields, and Return always accepts. 

They removed a lot of the Wordstar commands.

Borland should have included a slightly enchanced version of the Turbo
Pascal 4-5.5 editor and the New one.  

I now use Qedit and the command line compilers to program.  It did multiple
file support right.

Randall Gaz
Disclaimer:
All opinions are my own and not my employer's, because I do not have one.