On 02/09/07, Michael Merkel wrote:
>>> "autocopy" is something which usually no application offers.
>>;
>>; IBrowse does. YAM does (or did).
>
> "usually". actually afaik it is common style on amiga to NOT
> automatically copy the text. so ibworse and yam are/were exceptions.
>
> ...
>> I use this feature dozens of times a day. It is one of the things
>> that makes the Amiga so fast and efficient.
>>
>>; What you might argue for is some kind of visual distinction for the
>> editing versus read-only windows.
>
> i have no problem with addind some autocopy feature to programs. but
> then it must become a common style guide for amiga guis. and NOT only
>; for one or two applications as they then would behave completely
> different than any other program.
>
There is no reason why every program has to behave in exactly the same
way. Each program has its own special requirements. It would be
pointless to try to make the interfaces for Lightwave, Pagestream and
TVPaint the same.
However, when two of the most used programs have a good feature,
hopefully any others that have read-only text windows might imitate
them. That would be, other browsers and email programs.
The Amiga Style Guide book is quite thin and was IMO only intended as a
first rough draft. It should not be taken as 100% compulsory.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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