Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!eric
From: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 5 finger trick and other junk
Message-ID: <3656@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 17:57:36 GMT
References: <1716@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 29

In article <1716@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <3629@cbmvax.UUCP> (Eric Cotton) writes: (about the hidden gadget in
>                                               preferences)
>>Contrary to popular belief this gadget has no purpose whatsoever.  Nor does
>>it have anything to do with any hidden messages.
>
>It may not do anything, but it apparently does have a purpose, intended or
>otherwise. After clicking on it, if you then start changing the date with the
>mouse, the months work strangely.

Okay, okay.  So I gave a half truth.  What Larry says is true.  I looked in
to this before and concluded that when Prefs was in its infancy (ie. in
development) the designers had planned on two select-gadgets each for
months, days, years, hours, and minutes.  They soon realized that having
two gadgets for the month was unnecessary.  But instead of deleting the
gadget from the gadget list they concealed it instead.  As you have seen,
it was not hidden well :-)  Needless to say it is not in V1.3 Preferences
(and you might notice a few other gadgets missing as well).

-- 
	Eric Cotton
	Commodore-Amiga

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