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From: maciolek@gecrd1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Better Windows?
Message-ID: <115@gecrd1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 13:48:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 13:48:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 00:50:25 EDT
References: <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <1987May14.125051.3647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: maciolek@gecrd1.UUCP (Mike Maciolek)
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Summary: Intuition already does this, too.

In article <1987May14.125051.3647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> pete@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Peter Santangeli) writes:
>
>In article <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>>In article <> pete@gpu.utcs.totonto.edu
>>>Wouldn't it make more sence to allow WINDOWS to have there own menu systems?
>>
>> You just described "Intuition", the Amiga user interface. Each window may
>> be attached to a menu strip.  *poof*.
>
> One more idea. One of the reasons I often drop down to a command interpreter
>while using my ST is that I can pass multiple files as arguments to many
>programs (ex: cat a.t b.t > c.t).
> Wouldn't it make sense to be able to HIGHLIGHT these multiple files from
>the desktop by single clicking, and then ACTIVATE the program by double
>clicking on it. The result being the filenames (+ volumes/subdirectories?)
>being passed to the programs in argv,argc form.

As any number of happy Amigans will be quick to point out, Intuition offers
-ALMOST- this very facility, AND avoids the one drawback: that there's no
obvious way to de-select an object once you've single-clicked on it.  (You
see, MOST of the time, when you single-click an icon, then decide "Nah, I
don't want THAT icon, I want THIS one", you want to be able to click on the
new choice and expect the old choice to go away.)

The Intuition answer is that you hold down a SHIFT key while single-clicking
individual icons, thus telling Intuition "don't de-select the previous icon
when I click on the next; keep all the previously selected ones around."  I
find this especially useful when moving many files between drawers.

Mike Maciolek	    seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!gecrd1!maciolek
-consulting for-
General Electric

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