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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1414@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 91 16:58:38 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.150149.16969@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5342@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5353@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <5353@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>
>On the mac, double-click and shift-click are the basic variants of the
>mouse click used by applications.  It sounds hellish, but for
>experienced users, it's not too bad.  Some examples:
>
>   * double-click in a word processing application and a whole word 
>     is selected.  If you then drag the mouse, the selection region
>     grows by word boundaries.  

Ok for a word. But to select a greater area, why not just click at the
beginning (*ONCE*) and drag the mouse to the end? Many Amiag programs
do it this way. Is there really always needed a double-click?

>   * double-click in the Finder to open up a directory/disk or to run
>     the appropriate application.

Same on Amiga

>   * shift-click to extend selection ranges.  Go to the top of your
>     word processing document and click.  Go to the bottom and
>     shift-click.  The range in between will be selected.  

As stated above, this also works with dragging. Even the famous
AmigaBasic editor scrolls its window thus expanding the selected range,
when you drag the mouse below or over the top of the window.

>   * shift-click in the Finder and in drawing programs, to add items
>     to your list of selected objects.  

Same on Amiga

> how would the Amiga differ if
>it had a single mouse button, and how would a mac differ if it had
>multiple buttons which were used like the Amiga.  From what you say,
>all it would change on the mac is that the menubar would stop hogging
>screen real estate.  I was hoping it'd take care of *some* of the
>shift-option-click business.

As stated above, I don't think your issue of the shift-clicks is
not only a question of the system, but also of intuitive programming.
This can obviously also be solved with one single button, as demon-
strated above.

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