[comp.lang.smalltalk] Tweaking user interface

cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click) (05/01/89)

I want to know if anybody out there has a package that allows more 
convient tweaking of the user interface behavour.  Things I would
like to see:

1) Arrow keys moving the I-beam cursor, instead of the mouse in Text panes.
2) Arrow keys moving the selection in List panes.
3) The resize-window button uses the current mouse position as the new
   window size, and the mouse is always over the resize-window button in 
   the upper-right corner.  You then move the mouse down the length of the 
   window to get same size as before.  I want the window to start at it's
   current size (irregardless of mouse position) and change size as a 
   function of relative mouse movements.
4) When I begin typing I want the mouse cursor to disappear, and re-appear
   the next time I move the mouse.  This way I don't have the mouse
   cursor obscuring my text when I'm typing - I'm just avoiding having to
   move the mouse to a far corner of my window.
5) It was a pain-in-the-neck to change my 25-line EGA to 43-line, would be
   nice to be easy.
6) Something like Amiga's Preference's program for tweaking colors, keyboard
   repeat rate, cursor appearance, etc - perhaps available from the system
   menu.

Any hope of somebody already having this done?  
Anybody else want to see me take a stab at this?

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lpj@hpctdlu.HP.COM (Laura Johnson) (05/02/89)

I'd like to know if you get any responses, and if you try
to do it yourself, I'd like to know how difficult it is.