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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining disk devices
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Date: 13 Jan 90 00:01:52 GMT
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In article <9278@cbmvax.commodore.com> (Andy Finkel) writes:
>Why would you present a choice to the user than can't be selected ?
>As a reminder to the user that the floppy drive is present ?  So
>the user can bring up the requester to remind him/herself that
>a floppy should be inserted into one of those drives ?
>If there isn't a floppy in the drive, you can't load or same to
>it...so shouldn't that selection be ghosted at least ?

It is merely a human factors issue. If you can make the button appear
like workbench makes the disk icon appear when a disk is inserted then
you pretty much cover the bases. The ghosting suggestion is the best
in my opinion. Leave it ghosted until a disk is inserted then un ghost
it. Naive users might panic when FoobarTool doesn't "recognize" their
external drive, the ghosted gadget gives them the knowledge that you 
know it is out there, there just isn't a disk in it yet.


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