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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Clipboards and the Amiga UI
Message-ID: <8706220535.AA06637@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 01:35:19 EDT
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In article <> craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) typed:
>
> We might want to extend the present mouse protocol to be:
>	POINT	- left-button = select it (same as now)
>	USE	- double-left = use it (same as now,window to top,icon to move)
>	CHANGE  - right-button = POP-UP menu of operations (if small,like
> 		  window operations or doing something to an icon.
>	 	  or pull-down if large (like a whole document, etc)
>	- double-right = use it in some other way?  move it?  see info?
>
>Comments?  Flames?  Agreement?

  Mostly agreement.  -=RJ=- Michal, author of Intuition defines the left
button for "selection" and the right for "information transfer".  (Intuition
manual, Chapter 10 "MOUSE AND KEYBOARD")

  I like the system that DPaint II uses.  The right button over the menu
bar pulls that information transfer area open.  Settings can be viewed and/or
set.  Right button can be pressed over one of the drawing tools to get/set
parameters.

  Mouse travel reduction could be made with a "Fast Menu" like the Ageis
products use.  This is just a dragable window with a "menu" of commands in
it.

  Extending the Dpaint interpretation of the right mouse button would have
the right button bring up the "info" window of the icon the pointer
was over.

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	One thing I had *never* liked about the Amiga was finding the
page forward gadget under a pile of other windows.  For the single tasking
Mac bringing the window to the front whenever clicked works ok.  For the
Amiga, no.  Different machines have different requirments.

	A left button double-click has always meant "open up" "use" or
"empasize".  I wrote a tiny handler that extends a double-click into any
window to bring that window to the front.  A single click works as
always.  See the next message for the code...

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	Ack!  (NAK,EOT,SOH)
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