[APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!

[Jeff Young]

Robin --

Well, "serious" programming or not, I've found some of your scripts
pretty dang handy. ;)

-- Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
> Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:35 PM
> To: 'AstroPlanner Beta Testers'
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!
> 
> > But I think an "expert mode" feature would be fine -- it would just
need
> > to be backwards from your suggestion (ie: hold key down to get
dialog
> > instead of to bypass it).
> 
> Fine by me.  Any suggestions I make are just that, 'suggestions'.
They are
> entirely open to modification.  As far as possible I'll never take a
soapbox
> position on anything.  As a very personal position I like applications
to be
> as flexible as possible, whilst appreciating that flexibility and
> ease-of-use tend to be mutually exclusive!  I'm quite sure that in the
> fullness of time some issue or other will crop up that I'll feel
strongly
> about; then I'll fight my corner :)
> 
> Regards
> Robin
> P.S. Last did 'serious' programming back in the pre-MSDOS era (anyone
> remember CPM/86?) so even MDI is 'new-world' to this ol' codger.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-
> > bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
> > Sent: 17 June 2008 15:02
> > To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> > Subject: Re: [APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!
> >
> > Robin --
> >
> > I think the whole paradigm shift from MDI to SDI was to remove the
> > concept of an "application" -- for the most part there are just
> > documents.
> >
> > Users familiar with the "new world order" are therefore likely to be
> > quite surprised by the dialog box.  I can't think of any other apps
that
> > do this.  Plus, the launch time of V2 seems to be much improved, so
I'm
> > not sure it's needed.
> >
> > But I think an "expert mode" feature would be fine -- it would just
need
> > to be backwards from your suggestion (ie: hold key down to get
dialog
> > instead of to bypass it).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- Jeff.
> 
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