I'm getting old.

Back in olden days the Machintosh did a graphical user interface. Many scoffed it wasn't for power users, but the Apple people did some solid work. Much of which is lost to the sands of time.

Specifically, doing some playing with pygame (rather cool, I do admit) I am shocked to see that they don't capture the timestamp of the event. God, getting a timestamp is so cheap and it is so small to store with the event (Python makes is to easy to put it in an attribute), yet they don't capture something so basic. They do an event queue, but don't tell me when the events happened. It is one thing to not tell me about a double-click, but to not even give me the data to decide for myself? Stupid!

No wonder I see cases where current user interfaces don't seem to even have captured the mouse coordinates with the event, and when things are busy the click is positioned where my mouse is when the software got around to noticing.

-kb, the Kent who isn't going to dive into whether OS X is crumbling or not.

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