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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Movable-Modal WDEF 1.01 (LONG)
Message-ID: <160@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 08:18:29 GMT
References: <39127@apple.Apple.COM> <1831@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <1831@esquire.UUCP> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:
>or locked into a mode, etc., the Mac OS itself violates many of these
>rules.
>
>Specifically, people tend to want to cut and paste in dialog boxes and
>are continually surprised and annoyed when they can't.  Even if it's
>the kludgy Hypercard script editor solution of supporting the keys and
>not the Edit menu, anything would be better than forcing people to
>type things when they shouldn't have to.

Guess what?  Under MacApp, the Edit menu remains enabled when displaying
any kind of dialog box (well ones with edit text items anyway).

So, the user interface dudes aren't sleeping after all.





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