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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: "file selector" blues, Megamax bug
Message-ID: <639@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 22:31:42 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.639
Posted: Wed Apr  8 22:31:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 13:48:39 EST
Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: user-friendly C sizeof

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I was using UNSQZ.PRG the other day, and got very frustrated.  Partly
it is my fault, partly Atari/DRI's fault, and partly unsqz's author.

Attempting to unsqueeze files on a RAMdisk, UNSQZ gave me a file selection
dialog box (the standard TOS thing) showing the files in drive D:\ with a
.?Q? suffix.  After selecting one, it then spun DRIVE A to look for a target
file!  This is doubly silly, since: I 'was' in D:, and if the target file
existed I wouldn't need to unsqueeze it!  After inserting a floppy to calm
TOS down, I clicked on "A:" and typed the long string "D:\*.*".  After that
unreasonable effort I automatically hit <Return> (habit? nature?), so I
had to start all over again.  After several trials I remembered to click in
the file-list window, then type in the real target name, then <Return> (yes).
(UNSQZ did display the appropriate target name at first, but TOS erased it
when I requested a different directory.)

Then I wanted to unsqueeze another file.  UNSQZ went back to A:\...

If there are shortcuts, I'd like to hear about them.

Atari: please add a drive-selection button to the file-selection dialog
       (like on the Macintosh), and try to give the user more slack
       with that Return key (e.g., when there is _no_ file name
       selected, ignore <return>, or equate it with a mouse click
       in a useful spot).

Programmers: please take more care to change the defaults passed to
       that dialog box as appropriate, and to accomodate users that
       use the ST in a different fashion than you: RAMdisk, hard disk,
       color, B&W, etc.

Yet another bug in Megamax C:

	sizeof("a string constant") always yields 4.

	(sizeof(s) where s is of type array-of-char works fine.)

- Moshe Braner