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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 21 Mar 91 06:22:22 GMT
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In article <971@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <12014@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>>
>>Not that I am trying to say the Amiga is any better -- to cancel an Amiga
>>requester, you can hit the <cancel> box (which is nice), or you can use
>>Amiga-B (which is not intuitive either).
>
>This topic was discussed heavily among developers. The result is:
>Those key combinations are INTENTIONALLY UNUSUAL! Again this comes

Hmm, might have been.  I was still in high school at the time for heaven sakes
:).

I would argue, however, that those requesters oughtn't to be grabbing the focus
regardless -- and that would go a long way to solving the problem you describe.

You are right -- they do grab a lot of my keypresses from other programs.  I
don't think they ought to do that either.

Perhaps In a perfect world, the requesters would come up quietly, and only
start to make "noise" if they aren't dealt with in some timely fashion.  EG.
after 30 seconds a system requester would pop up on your current screen
requesting action on any outstanding requesters.  I usually only need two
or three seconds to deal with them, but they never appear at a convenient
time *unless* I'm single-tasking.  And even then they're annoying because they
destroy my type-ahead line of thought :)

On the other hand, the left-amiga key qualifier is rarely used, how about
'e' and 'r' (at least for the American version :)) which might stand for
'exit' and 'retry' -- except that's reversed from the on-screen representation.
Oh well, you get what I mean -- there are unused, but intuitive answers to
these problems.  For now, I suppose, we live with history, just like the
Mac :(...

>BTW, had to cancel crossposting to comp.sys.mac.misc, our cbm newsfeed
>doesn't know this (bogus?) newsgroup :-)).

:)  Artificial Intelligence of the best kind.

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
Signature erased, because it used to be something snide against the Mac. 
undergoing recnstrctn. [Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus]