corey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (j.c. wang) (01/16/91)
I just downloaded AutoRaise and Usher a few minutes ago and I guess I'll post my impressions: AutoRaise: neat utility if you have enough memory but my main gripe with the current version is it doesn't work with either BackMenu (which I'm addicted to by now) or Usher. When you try to call either Raise moves the active "window" to the menuing program (which they themselves do not do) and kills it. Then you need to activate the menu again while there is *no* active window or icon. I really hope the author, Robert F. Nee, could solve this problem; until he does I will not be comfortable with it. Usher: hmm...what to say, kind of similar to BackMenu (when is the next version of this coming out by the way? I think the author said he was going to add cascading menus or something?). The only thing is that if you have many subdirectories it's very inconvient to scroll though all the sub-direc to find the file. BackMenu lets you customize the menu for the most important programs and access them in the first menu. An improvement to Usher might be to let the user customize the first menu and still keep the 'run...' option as well. I also like the size of BackMenu (I have an Orchid ProDesigner ][ at 1024x768x256); it's much more visible than Usher. Oh, and please make it so you don't have to hold down the mouse button to see the menu (also ala BackMenu). Thanks to George Browning. I hope these observations are helpful to the authors. I'm very impressed with them so far, they just need to be fine tuned. As for Backmenu and Usher competing for the same screen, I'm still a Backmenu man. -----john __________________________________________________________________________ John C. Wang ////////////////////////////// corey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu 3700 Spruce St, box 78 * Philadelphia * Pennsylvania * 19104 * USA "To use 1-2-3, it must be installed on your hard drive!" \\\\ Lotus Corp