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From: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Standard File Requesters
Message-ID: <2977@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 04:23:02 GMT
References: <0914.AA0914@amigash> <941@sactoh0.UUCP> <11583@well.UUCP> <UYNn=hy00VsfE2FI4k@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <UYNn=hy00VsfE2FI4k@andrew.cmu.edu> mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>> How about a "filerequester.library?"
>
>Stuart, with all due respect, I would like to make one important point:
>
>	Graphical UI != File Requester in a Library
>

I don't believe that he ever said it was...

[...]
>3) Bring more UI standardization to Amiga programs, 4) Allow hackers
                                                              ^^^^^^^
>to customize the "Standard" interface using SetFunction(), and 5)
[...]

That's exactly the point.  You shouldn't have to be a hacker to get a
filerequestor that works well for you.  I guess your saying that only
people with technical expertise deserve to have file requestors that
they like.

Mike Golden 
Physiology Undergraduate
Michigan State University