Hi there,
I agree: this would certainly make sense.
I think it's worth sending this to HJ as a suggestion, so I'm copying this
correspondence to them now.
If others don't like the idea, I guess they had best write also.
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Carol Pearson
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At 10:42 20/04/99 +0100, Alan Thomas wrote:
>Nice reasoning Bob! JFW is supposed to be a 32-bit Windows application
>after all, isn't it? I don't personally hear H.J. actually doing it,
>but they couldn't gripe to much about non-standard windows layout
>whilst retaining this irritating menu system. Every time you "OK" a
>specific set of features you are dropped right out of the selection
>process. As you are only to well aware, you have to pull down the
>MenuBar to select the Settings Menu again, in order that you can choose
>another category, make your selections and be dropped out once more.
>
>With a multi-page dialogue, one could simply Control+Tab to the next
>set of options or Control+Shift+Tab back and make all your selections
>before having to "Apply" and "OK" your chosen changes.
>
>Allan
>
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>"It has been for me a long night, but a bright day. God has been
>pleased to give me the talent of blindness and I have tried to do my
>best to use it."
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>William Moon.
>1819 - 1894.
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>From: BOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: jfw mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: sugestion: config manager
>Date: 16 April 1999 23:52
>
>I noticed that in jfw3.3 there are a lot of changes to the
>configuration
>manager.
>I would have hoped that jfw would have also updated their way of
>processing
>changes to the configuration manager.
>Instead of having us access it as a menu driven system--a well tested
>method in the good old DOS days--they should make the configuration
>manager
>a multi-paged dialog with pages such as user configuration, text
>configuration, etc. Each page could contain check boxes and edit
>fields in
>which to enter the necessary data.
>While they are at it, they could also include changes to the jfw
>program so
>that we could select voices, languages, etc in the same manner.
>
>What do you think?
>Bob
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