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In article <1992Aug3.222826.25211@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
>Wow! I finally know what the FilterManager actually does! Thanks, James!
>
>Okay, so the next (rather obvious) question is:
>What do people (especially thems what reside @ acorn...) think the FM can
>be used for?
>
>We have come up with a couple of ideas... but what else can you/have you
>thought of?

> * Allow key equivalents (like f12) while TASKWINDOWs are running! Yeah!!!
>   (Or is this fixed under RO3?)

So I could have ` and ' mapped to quote-left and quote-right when typed in
Impression, and left as grave and quote-single in all other applications?
That would be useful!  Does anyone have any idea how this could be achieved
in RISC-OS 2, even if it affects all applications?

> * Specialised icons: e.g. "slider" icons - can these now be added by trapping
>   redraw, click, etc. events, and automatically handling the slider before
>   the application has a chance to notice the click... These clicks can then
>   be converted to messages to the application telling it the new slider
>   position...

How about detecting drags on all writable icons that are normally non-draggable
allowing their contents to be dragged to other icons / text windows etc.
Squirrel is very good in this respect (especially when used with Impression),
but it would be useful if it was transparent to the application.

Andrew.
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