Re: #815


Subject: Re: #815
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 17:56:41 CDT


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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:

> sam th wrote:
>
> > Well, I have no idea about the windows-specific taskbar issues. But
> > the reporter seems to have 3 main problems -
> >
> > 1- he/she wants an mdi - too bad
>
> At the moment. I might have got a few cards up the sleeve that perhaps
> would allow us to fulfill that request (at the user's request at runtime
> MDI or SDI), at least in Win32. We'll see... :-)

Sound neat.

>
> > 2- he/she wants a save-all-open-documents command. - this might
> > be useful
>
> Quite useful I'd say. It's probably more-or-less a non-brainer to do it
> in Win32. The question is "should it be done"? It would be
> non-standard. It also has the implication that the Win32 version would
> change behaviour to reply to keyboard shortcut as it is implied in the
> menu instead of as it is now: by its own discretion. What to do? Should
> the menu be changed/added-to or should the shortcut keys behaviour be
> changed?
>

Well the shortcut keys should stay bound to what they currently do. But a
save all on the file menu would be a nice additon, in my opinon. I could
have sworn I had see that before, too.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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