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gchow@ipsa.reuter.com (george chow) writes:

>Well, I've been using SunView on a 386i for the last month or so and have gotten
>very used to the way that it relocates your pointer on top of the most safe
>response in any dialog box. After you respond, you are put right back where you
>were before the dialog box came up. It was very disconcerting in the beginning
>but after a few days, it becomes second nature to not `run' to any dialog box
>that pops up. (BTW, I use an SE mostly so that moving to any dialog box is not
>much of a problem but on the Sun/Apollo/Mac with big screens, it is 
>semi-annoying to have to literally go so far to respond to any dialog box.

I actually wrote an INIT to do this on the Mac.  I never got around to
adding an icon and sending it to the world.

What stopped me was trying to decide on the "right" behavior when modal dialogs
are nested.  (For example, the "Options" dialog within the Laserwriter
"Page Setup" dialog.)  Even worse, consider Microsoft Word's way of letting
you move from one dialog to another by clicking a button.  I couldn't decide
when it was the right time to put the cursor back where it started.

If there's an outcry I can get this out to the net FOR EXPERIMENTATION 
WITH USER INTERFACES only.  I don't consider it well enough tested to turn
loose on the world at large.

--Pete Poorman
  poorman@convex.com