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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: GhostScript 2.2
Message-ID: <11239@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jun 91 12:41:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.102833.22459@cl.cam.ac.uk> dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy) writes:
:> 1) don't have two windows - one for stdin & one for stdout - merge
:> them into one ordinary text window (like tiggr & I did for TeX)
:
:May I have a copy of the code you used for TeX? I'm quite happy to do it this
:way, but I don't want to waste time re-inventing the wheel.
Of course.  If you don't have TeX already, I'll look out a copy & put
it on a disk for you.  It isn't perfect but it has survived use in a couple
of progs so far.  I liked your idea of layering a stdio interface on
top. Wish I'd done that!  [Shame they didn't do a vsscanf though :-( ]

:> 2) Instead of the special QUIT icon, just use the normal top-left
:> 'go away' mechanism
:
:I've never liked using "Close" to mean "Quit" - it seems like a semantic
:confusion. I know that its standard for many Acorn proggies, but that doesn't
:mean I have to like it.
I partly sympathise, but the point of Wimp interfaces is that they
should all be consistent.  Pressing 'go away' should iconise the
program, and pressing on the GS on the icon bar should get it back.
You actually quit by menuing on the icon bar and choosingb "Quit".

Thanks for considering the other suggestions.

Graham