navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) (05/02/90)
Sorry about this folks. I'm afraid my mailer is braindead. Private to Marc Barrent: [foo, now I can't get ^L in here, sorry again :(] Anyway. Marc, there are very good reasons for working on Jazz1.0, most of them being that the new WB2.0 did not address the needs as I saw them, and the simplistic hooks into the new system won't let me change them. Most importantly, WB2.0 is still synchronous, which is a pain. The reason Jazz had all those programs were for the asynchronous nature. You can hit the close gadget while a window is opening, for example. I have yet to get any of my 1.4Beta disks to do that. The neatest feature was the real-time scrollbar update, which is still done better than the WB does their realtime "push-button" scrolls... (less screen updating). You see, in my opinion WB needs to be thrown out. Cmdre would rather try and make it useable. Fine with me, as that leaves me with a potential market.. :) To further annoy me, their floppy disk access has succeeded in getting slower. Thanks to Dave Haynie, my disk accesses have allways been faster, without those annoying "directory/.info" files. And yes, believe it or not, WB creates a whole slew of new idiotic ".info" type files. I have been playing around with my Beta disks, so yeah I'll include some of the better features.. :) Believe me, I'll do them one better :) -Dave Try to send from your owl account, that may work better for my replier... THanks David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu "Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought." -me