jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) (01/31/88)
In article <9350@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Hallett) writes: >In article <887@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John Delaney) writes: >>All you INIT writers (and creaters of similar hacks)! How about changing >>your INITs to CDEVs? There is probably additional effort required for >>the interface, but they are much less intimidating because they are less >>opaque and more controlable. >Yes. What I would like to see are some DA's floating around that >should be INIT's or CDEV's as well. Front on my mind is the POPUP DA Yes, but we also need a better control panel. The current control panel could be enhanced in several ways. I'd like to have a larger area for the icons or smaller icons (more than 4 cdev's before you have to scroll). It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to achieve ordering and priority is a kludge. Juri Munkki jmunkki@santra.hut.fi jmunkki@fingate.bitnet
isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) (02/03/88)
In article <10070@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes: >It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might >want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations >so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to >achieve ordering and priority is a kludge. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well of course it's a kludge. Unfortunately, most people don't write things correctly the first time. If they're written correctly, order really shouldn't matter -- and then instead of fixing them, they just tell people to reorder it as a permanent fix instead of temporary... Ken -- Ken Hancock UUCP: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu BITNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu DISCLAIMER: If people weren't so sue-happy, I wouldn't need one!
Ray_Ray_Davidson@cup.portal.com (02/04/88)
In an earlier article, Juri Munkki expresses the following -- >It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might >want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations >so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to >achieve ordering and priority is a kludge. There is a cdev written by the guys at CE SoftWare (QuicKeys, etc.) called "choose cdev", which allows you to choose which cdev is at the top of the list in the control panel. I'd post it, but it contains advertising for their other products (and it appears from some of the conversation that postings aren't). It is probably available from an owner of QK or DiskTop, or one of the major computer networks (CIS, GENie, etc). By the way, CE Software encourages free distribution of this little number. Ray Davidson CIS : 71121,572 GENie : raydavidson UUCP : ...sun!cup.portal.com!ray_ray_davidson Snail Mail: 22422 Walnut Circle South, #A Cupertino CA 95014
hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert Joseph Hammen) (02/05/88)
In article <10070@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes: >It would also be nice to be able to hide cdev's temporarily. I might >want to hide Dimmer and some other rarely used init/cdev combinations >so that often used cdevs would be visible. Editing the file names to >achieve ordering and priority is a kludge. There is a cdev from CE Software called ChooseCDEV. It does exactly what its name suggests - lets you select a priority list for your cdevs so that you can make the ones you use the most appear at the top of the list. It's PD, and if enough people want it, I'll post it. >Juri Munkki ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104