CompuServe Messages

Aloha Charles! Some of the interface suggestions you have mirror my own. I'm not familiar with the conventions used on the Amiga, but this is pretty standard fare on PC's, Macs, and probably other systems in terms of interface setups. I'd imagine (ugh no pun intended) this program being the brute powerhouse that it is probably sacrificed a bit on the interface conventions used in order to get a lot of features out quickly that works and doesn't have the gawdawful overhead of training wheels. I'd have probably done the same thing if I was studly enough to write something like this as well<g>. The CUA Basic Interface Design guide that IBM put out some time ago still is a good guideline I refer back to when doing production code at work. I'd really like to see a couple of things considered unless other design changes in production would conflict: 1) A default button in BOLD for all the common dialogs that would be activated by ENTER a) Usually the most commonly chosen option 2) Being able to ESCAPE from any chooser dialogs that come up 3) The TAB, SHIFT-TAB convention for jumping from field to field 4) A function key to activate the browser (F4 is commonly used in PC-land but I'm not picky) 5) Hot Keys for attribute settings and other dialog buttons. a) ex. when you pull up transformations being able to press 'r' for rotate, 'p' position, 'z' size, etc. 6) A Hot key to bring activate the top menu bar instead of having to move the mouse. I was going to post this by itself, and figured I'd post it here in response to yours since they are on the same general subject matter. I'm a two-hander when working and I tend to mouse with my right and keyboard with my left. I've noticed that I have to let go of the mouse and do some finger gymnastics a bit more than I'd like to. I can get stuff done, but it'd be nice to economize on the motions a bit. Still having a blast exploring Imagine 3.0 though! Aloha, Sharky – 70614,2011 @ 07-Jul-1994, 15:50:46 Honolulu, Hawaii Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.2