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From: wbnsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Standardization
Keywords: Menus
Message-ID: <1318@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 88 01:02:34 GMT
References: <1314@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <10744@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: wbnsnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <10744@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector.UUCP writes:
>I see no point to have the names of other programs to run in a standard
>application menu. This is what the WorkBench/CLI is for.
OK, I agree.  I just wanted to see what the responses I would get about
including this ``feature''.  No one seems to want it.
Should we add a color palette requester?  On this menu?  Somewhere else?

File Menu
>Delete doesn't belong here - use the WorkBench/CLI.
OK, but then applications shouldn't close WorkBench.  

Edit Menu
>Looks fine to me except you have two menu selections now with Amiga-P
>as the key shortcut. Perhaps Amiga-I (for "Insert") would be more
>appropriate for paste?
Oops, my mistake.  Paste should have been Amiga-V.
The reason for X (Cut) C (Copy) V (Paste) is because these three keys
are in a line together.  You can quickly do these three operations
without removing your hand from the Amiga key while at the same time
move your mouse around easily.

Font Menu
>There should not be a seperate font menu - there will always be systems
>with more font names than can fit nicely into one menu, unless one
>implements scrollable menus/submenus (like on my 630MTG or the Mac/Too).
Does anybody know how to implement scrollable menus?  If not, then I think
it should be moved.

For those people who have asked where these key combinations come from,
the Macintrash.

For those people who expressed concerns about the file requesters, more
information will be prepared this weekend.  However, I plan on implementing
some ``hooks'' for applications to customize/enhance the requester
for their specific application.  The main purpose of providing these
requesters is for those applications which simply present a string
gadget and say, ``Type in the filename: ''

					William B. Norris IV

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