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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Facc ... an unanswered burning question (and daemons)
Message-ID: <9585@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 20:13:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 20:13:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 17:24:54 EDT
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In article <1443@xanth.UUCP>, kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
> 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?

I think it depends alot depends on one's personal preferences, how one
does their work, frequency of use, etc.

As an example, I use GRABBiT, and constantly use the SCREEN circulation
facility (Ctrl-Alt-n) to flip to the screen I want, and the save SCREEN
facility (Ctrl-Alt-s).  I wouldn't want to have to use a menu to activate
those functions, as that would obviate their utility.  However, I can
never remember what the key sequences are for the other functions GRABBiT
provides, and a menu would be helpful for them.

I guess the ideal would be to provide both mechanisms, but then the size
of the daemon goes way up, and things could become very cumbersom, crowded,
and slow.

Maybe a master hot-key to enable/disable the menu interface, or perhaps
just have it put up a window/menu/requester that showed all the current
hot-key bindings, but was otherwise non-functional?

/kim


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