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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: An annoying feature of 1.1,1.2, etc that I want gone
Keywords: Suggestion
Message-ID: <10593@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 18:02:48 GMT
References: <4023@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <4023@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Kevin Oster) writes:

)   A change I would like to see in new versions of ROM: when a requestor
)comes up so inform the user of, say, no disk in df1: or insert system disk,
)etc, its window should not be activated. This would save me the trouble
)of hitting the mouse on the window I was typing in to select it again.
)   This is very annoying. You stick in a disk, say "ls df1:" and the
)requestor comes up and you cannot type more commands in while it is
)selected. Moreover, there is no reason for it to be selected, since the
)keyboard does nothing to it-- the gadgets for retry and cancel are all
)the input it needs.

You are forgetting the left-Amiga-V and left-Amiga-B keyboard
equivelents for Retry and Cancel.  If the requestor window was not
automatically activated, you would have to click in the window, and then
press left-Amiga-{B,V}.  Kind of eliminates the advantage of the keyboard
equivelents.

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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP