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From: phil@phd.UUCP (H Phil Duby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: General Complaints About Amiga Applications
Summary: Its a free market system
Message-ID: <phil.7996@phd.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 01:01:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: Priviate Amiga Site
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In article <1991Jun23.200930.17561@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes:
>      I realise this posting is going to be flame bait, but...
>
> I'm really disappointed with some of the common traits of Amiga applications
> software.  Obviously, not all Amiga applications share these flaws, but a good
> deal seem to.  It is the flawed software I'm talking about, not the (IMHO)
> well-written software.
>
> 1)  I haven't found one application yet which takes advantage of the clipboard.
>     I should be able to draw something in DPAINT 3, put it in the clipboard
>     and draw it directly into PageSetter II or into HyperBook.  Likewise, I
>     should be able to copy text onto the clipboard from HyperBook and take
>     it directly into Word Perfect.  Come on, we've had the clipboard since
>     WB 1.3, when are people going to start using the damn' thing?

Try a few other programs.  ExpressPaint uses, and has used for some time,
the clipboard for graphics.  Excellence! uses the clipboard for both
graphics and text.

> 2)  Very few applications use the standard keyboard short-cuts outlined in
>     the Commodore Amiga OS Libraries and Includes book.  When I'm in a paint
>     or draw program and want bold text I want to hit Amiga-B.  When I'm in
>     any program and want to cut or delete something I want to hit Amiga-X.
>     This isn't very hard to implement, and (IMHO) programmers who don't do
>     it are just being lazy.

You don't like it, then only buy software that follows the rules YOU do
like.  Convice enough people to do this, (assuming they agree with your
selections), and programmers/publishers will change real fast <grin>.

[... next complaint and summary deleted ...]

My second comment could be considered flame bait as well, but the first is
<hopefully> informative.  There ARE available Amiga programs that use the
clipboard. You just have to find them.  If there are features of your
current <no clipboard> programs that you MUST have <and not in the
clipboard supporting programs>, then do without clipboard support.  If the
clipboard is important enough to you, then switch.

I feel somewhat the same about AREXX support (though it has not been around
as long as the clipboard).  I make a point of trying to only get software
packages that support it.  Others may not <and probably don't> care.  Vote
with your wallet.

> Travis Capener
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