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From: MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WB 1.4 Enhancements, Life Without a Mouse
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Date: 13 Feb 89 01:33:30 GMT
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Is it true that one of WB 1.4's goals is to make the Workbench itself more
useful?  If so, I would like to suggest it be made more useful, without the
mouse.

I liked the mouse at first, but now I hate to take my fingers off the keyboard;
it just seems to slow things down when I have to reach for the mouse.

Has everyone here tried FuncKey?  It is a macro program that also lets you
assign keys to cycle through all the windows and screens currently running
on your system.  I wish WB had this capability built into it.  Also, how about
the ability to cycle through all the available menus, icons, and gadgets on
a screen/window in some systematic way.

It would be nice if all program menus, including  Workbench, had
amiga-key menu short-cuts.  Each program should also assign a Help key to show
you a window with all the current keyboard short-cuts.    Right now, it seems
that only HALF of productivity programs have this feature.

Finally, I suspect other people have invented ways to make their meese
obsolete.  I would like to hear about them.


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