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04/17/06 16:44
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 		 #114398 - take the bitter with the sweet
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Windows seems to tempt, if not force, developers to take a multi-menu approach to things that wasn't needed under DOS.

I doubt that windows "Windows force a multi-menu approach", that many that graduated in copying instead of programming do so, is another story.

I am somewhat ambivalent about the Windows vs DOS issue. For evrything I use rarely Windows is luvverly since it does not require you to remember "CTL-shift-S" and for what you do every day (easy to rember "CTL-shift-S") it is, agreed, slower. I have (with varied success) pestered providers to put the most popular choices one menu higher in order to make win based productivity better. If you check some of the win based "real" productivity tools (CodeWright comes to mind) you do not have to do multilevel menu more than, say, once a day.

Erik


List of 38 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
TSSOP28 footprint for Protel 2.7 PCB            01/01/70 00:00      
   Why not design the footprint yourself?            01/01/70 00:00      
      You want to try it with fricking eagle            01/01/70 00:00      
         Do you like BEagle?            01/01/70 00:00      
            pcad            01/01/70 00:00      
               Yes, I've got it right here            01/01/70 00:00      
                  FPGA libraries in general            01/01/70 00:00      
            Protel            01/01/70 00:00      
               I'm spoiled            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Protel for DOS            01/01/70 00:00      
            a simple workaround            01/01/70 00:00      
            Eagle            01/01/70 00:00      
               what            01/01/70 00:00      
                  BOMs from schematics            01/01/70 00:00      
                     a good idea with problems            01/01/70 00:00      
                        problems have solutions            01/01/70 00:00      
                           agreed, as I tried to convey            01/01/70 00:00      
            WOW            01/01/70 00:00      
               Yes, about five IC's            01/01/70 00:00      
                  OK, now it makes sense            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Well, how would you do it?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        tell it all when first posting            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Erik, you're doing it again ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                              naah            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Well, OK, it's your choice ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    I actually consider that a disadvantage            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       It's a matter of preference, perhaps            01/01/70 00:00      
         There are more than one fish in the sea            01/01/70 00:00      
            It's still much too slow to be useful            01/01/70 00:00      
               In the olden days I worked with DOS ORCA            01/01/70 00:00      
                  It's the plague of Windows            01/01/70 00:00      
                     take the bitter with the sweet            01/01/70 00:00      
                     keyboard shortcuts and toolbars            01/01/70 00:00      
                        I've just got to disagree            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Are you in the mood for another?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Nah....no menu's            01/01/70 00:00      
                        that is rarely an option            01/01/70 00:00      
                           it's no better if you're independent            01/01/70 00:00      

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