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From: seifert@diku.dk (Michael Seifert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Comments on !PlaceIt
Keywords: !PlaceIt
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.195946.9947@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 1 Feb 91 19:59:46 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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Hi Ian, 

Since I can't e-mail you, I'll post my humble opinions here:

I've been using !PlaceIt for two weeks, and must say that I really enjoy it!
I'd like to give you a few suggestions for improvements, and also a bug
report:

  * Press the menu button on top of one of the
    icons on the background (icon is now inverted
    behind the menu)

  * Move the mouse pointer to the background and press
    the left mouse button (menu disappears)

You will now notice that the icon "looks like" it has been selected,
and is hence revsersed - but it isn't selected, just kind of "not un-
reversed". Try to select another icon next to the reversed one, and you'll
see what I mean.

Suggestions for improvements:

I'll write these in order of importance (imho):

1. Implement a small clock, this is how I think it should be implemented:

     Include "Clock" in the menu.

     When clicking menu, another "filer icon" will appear, only this
     is a "digital clock" icon. The icon can be moved around just like
     any other icon on the background. Please make it a digital clock
     with ordinary letters if possible. I think you should avoid seconds,
     hence only use hours and minutes (24 hour system).

     Take a look at !Daily by Joe Abley (joe@uucp.tharr), I used to use
     it until your background put itself on top of !Daily.

2. The possibility of a sprite as background.

3. VduSaver function (Please - no bouncing nuts).

4. SetDir function. The possibility of changing the current directory,
   by dragging a directory to an icon. Make this a menu option, and just
   like clock, make it into "yet another filer icon".

Why do I want all these functions in your program, when I might as well
use several other PD programs? Because each silly but useful application
use minimum 16Kb of my precious ram.

I hope you find these suggestions useful.


Regards,


Michael
(seifert@freja.diku.dk)