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Article #25353Re: Exotic Interface Query
From: rusty
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1987 01:20
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1987 01:20
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In article <8704061526.AA14490@ican.think.com> rose@THINK.COM writes: >As a matter of principle, you should look most suspiciously at any >functionality which is available from one input device only. >Why must there be a necessary relation between an operation >(e.g., select window) and the means by which it is requested >(e.g., mouse)? > >More specifically: Anything you can do with the mouse, >you should be able to do with the keyboard, and vice versa. How would you implement, for example, something like MacPaint, where everything can be done from both the keyboard and the mouse? -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@weyl.berkeley.edu ucbvax!weyl!rusty
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cartan!weyl.Berkeley.EDU!rusty From: rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Exotic Interface Query Message-ID: <1108@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 20:20:08 EST Article-I.D.: cartan.1108 Posted: Wed Apr 8 20:20:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 10:41:29 EST References: <8704061526.AA14490@ican.think.com> Sender: daemon@cartan.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) Distribution: world Organization: Math Dept. UC Berkeley Lines: 18