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From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: General Complaints About Amiga Applications
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.100203.9074@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 26 Jun 91 16:02:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.200930.17561@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: BC Systems Corporation, Victoria, B.C.
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In article <1991Jun23.200930.17561@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes:

> 1)  I haven't found one application yet which takes advantage of the clipboard.

You're not looking very hard...  Most text editors (as opposed to work
processors), utilize the clipboard.  For example, you could cut a section in
the demo of TurboText (which doesn't support the Save function), paste it into
TxEd, and then save the file.

Most Clipboard applications have been restricted to text, not graphics, that
I'll agree on...

> 2)  Very few applications use the standard keyboard short-cuts outlined in

Agreed.  Some programmers just haven't learned that because we have a windowing
interface, that the keyboard is obsolete.  There is a definite advantage to
being able to utilize BOTH keyboard and mouse.

>     This isn't very hard to implement, and (IMHO) programmers who don't do
>     it are just being lazy.

Yup.

>      I realize that the above three points are a bit of a tirade, but I
> think that the issues are important (IMHO, of course) and need to be discussed.

What do you think the RESULT of the discussion will be?  I believe that a lot
of programmers know what should be done, especially those that frequent Usenet. 
To those, this discussion is a waste of time.  Those that don't frequent Usenet
won't benefit.  WE know what we want; they don't.

If you really want to help, refuse to buy (support) a product that doesn't
meet your requirements.  If everybody did that, the developers would listen.

> Travis Capener

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