Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Itty-bitty tiny little Workbench bugs? Message-ID: <2950@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 16:06:11 GMT References: <490@ra.rice.edu> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 42 In article <490@ra.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu writes: >I have found one or two minor bugs in Intuition. Or are they in the >Workbench? Oh well. Haven't heard them mentioned yet, so I'll throw them >out at the crowd. > >Maybe we can call this the "lazy icon bug": >1) select an icon so that either it is inverted or its alternate image >is showing. >2) notice that the window the icon is in is also "selected". >2) select an application's window (a CLI or a Clock). >3) notice how the icon still looks selected but the window is no longer >selected. The Workbench or Intuition or somebody forgot to put the icon's >old image back. Actually, this is a feature. Because the icon(s) are still selected you can use the 'extend-select' method (hold down the shift key) and click on the Workbench window to reactivate the window without having to reselect your icon(s). This can be significant when you have selected a half a dozen icons, and have to go to the CLI for a second. >Then there's the "not-so-double click bug": >Do the following in rapid succession >1) select an icon >2) select an application window (such as a CLI) >3) click the same icon you selected in 1). >4) notice how the Workbench decided to start up the application associated >with that icon, even though you technically did NOT double click on it. Try a 'slow' double click operation. Take about the same amount of time as it takes to click on a CLI then back to Workbench. I bet you'll see the application fire up as well. Then Check your Preference setting is for the time spacing on double clicks. Maybe you want to cut that time down. -- andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.