Mail, GUIs and Misc
[Messy Mail]
For some reason MailExcite stuffs up long-ish lines of text, sorry if my mail
becomes
unreadable.
[Attachments]
Is it just MailExcite or does everyone who receives the digest recieve the
attachments
as blocks of characters?
[Repartioning]
Rob : There is a freeware program for DOS called FIPS if you want to re-partion
you
hard drive, without damaging your data.
[Natural Language And Spell Checkers]
Programming in natural language? Yuk. It's hard enough to do in an unnatural
one.
If I haven't said it before, look at NIALL it uses an engine that analysises
placement
eg if it were to get "A blue car." It would construct a tree like this:
a <-> blue <-> car
If it were then to get "A red car exploded"
a <---> blue <--> car <-> exploded
\-> red <-/
With a bit of extra knowledge (verbs, nouns, etc), IALL, it might be useful.
It might recognise "the car" see the the and say 'car maybe a noun', perhaps it
could
ask.
[GUI Developing Programs]
Programs to help you develop your UI only proliferate badly designed
interfaces.
Campus East (UOW), where I'm living, used to use a character display based
system.
They learnt it, it probable wasn't flashy but it was ok. There current Win32
system
is just one dialog on top of the next. It becomes difficult to differentiate
what
is what, especially as it is all grey or grey. Tragically this trend of "make
the
whole GUI look like a dialog box" makes things difficult for the user. I propose
an re-examination of GUI design so Euphoria programs are better. My first
comment
is that dialogs need a text area for an explanation of that they do, it is
really
needed.
[GUI Making]
routine_id(), many thanks Rob, has made euphoria GUI's exceptionally more
powerful.
It allows a object to be passed the id of a routine to call whenever a property
is
activated. An object might have the properties Over_Routine, Click_Routine,
Properties_Routine
and Explanation_Routine. Over_Routine being when the mouse is moved over it or
it
becomes the active button by Tab, Click_Routine being what happens when it's
pushed,
Properties_Routine being the right click action (click and hold for mac?) and
Explanation_Routine
being the middle click, popping up a message to the side, something
meaningful-ish
like "Frequency Pop-Up Menu: The frequency is the rate at which you want the
sound
to be sampled, the higher the frequency the better the quality, but the files
become
much larger."
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Sincerely,
Mathew Hounsell
Mat.Hounsell at mailexcite.com
More to come, sorrry, just thought I'd split it.
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