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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Facc ... an unanswered burning question (and daemons)
Message-ID: <1443@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jun-87 10:37:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1443
Posted: Sat Jun 27 10:37:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jun-87 02:34:51 EDT
References: <4074@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Summary: I'd like a menu instead of hotkeys.

In article <4074@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes:
> [...]In fact for many programs it should be
>possible to tell them to go away (close all windows and screens) and
>sit in memory waiting for a certain key press before opening up again.
>Jim's idea is for Multasking Desk Accessories.  These programs would
>even eventually be started at boot time with the command
>BindCommodities, which would look in the Commodities directory and
>execute all the commands there.  
> [...]but if all you even needed to say was
>"Blank the screen now" or "Quit executing", than the key presses is
>the way to go.
>
>BTW:  With Jim's system, the keys that a certain program uses are all
>user definable, so there are no clashes between programs trying to use
>the same key (except maybe w/ Deluxe Paint, I hear that has LOTS of
>keyboard commands!)

Hmmm.

For the particular case of a bunch of workbench programms lurking in the
background with no visible screen representation, I'd rather have one
RSLclock sized window for the commodities broker, with one  dynamic menu of
all the programs available for call, by name, than to have to remember all
the (possibly mutable) hot-key combos to call them up.  Guess the brain
cells are just getting a bit soggy with age, but ...

Other's comments?

Kent.

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