Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!info-mac From: info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) Newsgroups: ont.micro.mac Subject: MacPaint stuff Message-ID: <4120@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-May-84 03:45:49 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4120 Posted: Wed May 2 03:45:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-May-84 04:37:47 EDT Sender: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 40 Date: Tue 1 May 84 13:10:01-EDT From: bill coderre Subject: MacPaint stuff To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA The following is a compartmentalized flame. Feel free to ignore the parts you don't like.... An Interesting (MacPaint) Hack: If you are in Pencil, and you hold the command key, clicking the mouse button toggles FatBits, and where the pencil on the normal screen is centered in the FatBits screen. Flame: Too bad this doesn't seem to be in the manual. It's an excellent idea, and points out a Great Concept in mousing (no claims of origin or originality...): GET BOTH HANDS BUSY! Allowing the left hand to option-modify the command increases the bandwidth of the keyboard and speeds things up a lot. Daydream: My vision of the ideal workstation keyboard is one with 5 keys on the left side of the keyboard to do single click, double click, constrained click, etc, and a trackball on the right side. This allows lap operation and shortens the hand travel distance. Trackballs can be made to be much more precise, too. It might become possible to do freehand drawing (or at least make it easier). I might (in the far future) hack together a mackeyboard like that. If any computer company wants to bring out a keyboard like that, by all means go ahead with my blessing. I'd like it. ...................................................................bc -------