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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Downside and Upside
Message-ID: <1859@zeus.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 16:20:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: zeus.1859
Posted: Mon Jun 15 16:20:39 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jun-87 01:21:59 EDT
References: <8706111647.AA02770@hi-csc.uucp> <1847@zeus.TEK.COM> <713@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
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In article <713@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:

    The Amiga has one cursor per window, and a mouse pointer. It has its
    advantages but when you move the mouse pointer from one window to
    another and click to activate it, you have to unfocus on the mouse
    pointer, and find the cursor to that window. If you make it bright
    magenta or something, its possible but a pain. If you forget this, you
    startt typing in staring at the mouse pointer, and of course, the text
    isn't going where you think it should be.

But of course, you're making the tacit assumption that text should always go
where the pointer cursor sits--an assumption whose realization I've seen
ONLY on Apollo workstations.  On the other hand, it is generally true that
each window in a multiwindow environment has the notion of a last active
input point, and with many Apollo applications, it's real simple--look in
the input pad.  Alternatively, move the pointing cursor to where you want
text.  If the alpha cursor isn't there, then do a selection to move it there.

    I dunno, seems like 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.

Hardly!
-- 
Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK