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By entering text with a "thermometer", I meant to make a metaphor
comparing the columns of letters in a standardized test to a vertical
choice or valuator, like a pull down menu, a virtual thermometer, a
scroll bar, or the volume control on the Mac control panel; not the
real temperature-measuring kind, of course. What I mean to point out
is that widgets and applications should try to use input devices that
are as abstract as possible, because by avoiding dependencies on such
things as keyboard configuration (certian shift and function keys,
keys being adjacent, key up events), or the number of buttons on a
mouse, you make it much more likely that your software will inducing
the minimum amount of pain, agony, and suffering, while fitting right
into vastly different hardware configurations. Try not to depend on
the semantics of particular input devices. For example, a touch screen
will only register a position when it's being touched, so unlike a
mouse, you can't track its position when it's not being pressed. And
you can warp a mouse, but you can't warp a finger.

	-Don