Hello Allie, On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:18:24 -0500 GMT (19/06/02, 03:18 +0700 GMT), Allie C Martin wrote:
ACM> I'm not sure if my opinion is valid one but anyway: IMHO any opinion, if brought forward appropriately, is valid. ;-) P>> Of course, I would never be able to do that without the help of P>> some power users. This is why I say that it is too complicated. ACM> It is complicated because being able to do this doesn't come easily. ACM> You *have* to put in your time to learn it. You can't expect all that ACM> you wish to do to be learnt in a snap. We certainly would wish this ACM> but it's certainly not the case. I would like to add that this very list is one of the features of TB. I don't know whether other mailers have such helpful lists. P>> There must be a way to implement simple yet powerful features with P>> check boxes. I am no programmer, but I am sure that the solution is P>> out there for anyone with a bit of imagination. ACM> You'd end up castrating the interface and holding everyone back. Sorry for disagreeing, but I don't think so. What he is asking for is an additional way to access the macros. I don't see how it castrates the existing interface. ACM> What about those who want to do more??? They will use the existing CLI. ACM> I don't see how under the sun one can reduce the construction of ACM> those more complex macro/regex combos to simple drop down menu ACM> selections. The advantage of drop-down menus is that they are localisable (i.e. they follow the chosen interface language). When you hit on a menu item, the correct macro/regex in English will be inserted into the template. There are a lot of programmers' tools around that work that way: you just hit "create array, 2 dims, 30x45" and the software will put the correct programming-language commands into your program-under-development. (There is a name for those tools, I just forgot it.) ACM> This is why the CLI and programming languages will be here to ACM> stay, whether it's behind the scenes or not. Sure. Right now, it's not behind the scenes. But it could be... ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.60q under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
