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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More DMouse 1.03 bugs
Message-ID: <5593@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 May 88 18:05:29 GMT
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Marco Papa writes:
>I LOVE DMOUSE!  The only thing I am missing (and I know this is a sore
>point with Matt) is a "popup clock/timer".  How can we convince Matt to 
>add the clock to DMOUSE?  Food? Money? :-)

I don't think this is appropriate...I asked Matt about adding a really
trivial feature (making ^H work in string requesters), and he pointed
out to me that the scope of DMOUSE is strictly limited. You can't add
every cute/useful little feature in the world to something; that process
gets out of hand quickly. (This is my view, I'm not quoting him directly).

What you *really* want is a front-end interface language for Commodities
Exchange. CX *is* the Perfect and General Method of handling any and
all input handlers. Adding a standalone popup clock handler is easy, adding
one to dmouse is easy, but the *right* place to put it is in a connection
to CX. Jimm did a fantastic job on CX; anyone who hasn't taken the time
to read the documentation on it yet is really missing out...it is an
absolutely inspiring design. See Fish disk 87.

My suggestion about a script language for CX isn't essential, it's just
that it would then become trivial to add such features to CX. Actually,
it's already *almost* trivial if you know how CX works. This would just
take it that one last step.
	Doug
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