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From: rico@oscvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Some wishes
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Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 12:28:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 17 12:28:57 1986
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Reply-To: rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: Dear Santa: more CLI/Wbench flexibility, good font editor could be better


Here's something to add to the wish list (I guess this will be for 1.3
(sigh)).  I would like the workbench screen to use *my* font instead of
the usual Topaz80 or whatever.  Many of my problems would go away if
there was a way to use a smaller font in con: windows and such.  Just
think how hard it's been to make a terminal program that uses all eighty
columns (the best I've seen is GIZMOZ, which puts itself into a screen).
This will make the font editor even more useful than it already is... 
While I'm at it, how about a way to put a CLI into an arbitrary
screen/window.  Come to think of it, I suppose this could be managed by
adding a suitable device driver for the CLI to attach to. 

My compilments to the writers of the Font editor, it is quite usable. 
My only beef is that pixels aren't complemented when you click on them,
you have to click on a gadget to get into set/reset mode (am I missing
something?).  I would have liked it better if when the cursor was
"dragged" around then whatever happened to the first pixel would happen
to all subsequent ones...  ie.  if the first pixel was on, then clicking
on it would turn it off, dragging the cursor around would then only turn
pixels off.  Similarly, if the original pixel were off, then dragging
would turn pixels on.  I believe this is the way most 'fat bits' type
programs work.  I guess this goes in 1.3 too (or does it qualify as a 
"bug"...)

I still haven't gotten any replies RE. message send/recieve/reply time
and addition of devices to AmigaDOS (Yes I read the pages about it in
the 'information for the advanced developer' section of the AmigaDOS
Technical reference manual, can *you* understand that??  If you can, I'd
really like to worship, err, I mean, hear from you....)

	Sorry this got so long
	  -Rico

	...{allegra|ihnp4|watmath|linus|decvax}!utzoo!oscvax!rico

If there are already reasonable ways of doing any or all of the above
and I'm just too stupid to think of them, feel free to call me an
idiot and then tell me how...