resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (04/05/91)
Something that's been bugging me: TeachText (as well as other programs, including *gasp* Microsoft Word) is somewhat in violation of a User Interface Guidline, buried quite nicely in Inside Mac II, chapter 2: IM II-56: If one or more documents are to be printed, your application should go through each document in the list and determine whether it can be printed. If any of documents can be printed, the application should display the standard Print dialog box and then print each document-- preferably without doing its entire startup sequence. For example, it may not be necessary to show the menu bar or the document window. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now, it is not *horrible* that these programs don't follow this guidline, but there is good reason to believe they should: if a document contains a graphic of any complexity, I want to print it without having to wait for my Mac SE to draw the whole bloody thing on my screen, and I really don't want to watch it. This will be especially important if TeachText is going to be able to print PICT files, as was originally planned for the 7.0 release. Has this been taken care of, or can it be if it hasn't. Let this also be a recommendation to others. It's not a vital thing, but it makes a difference in some instances, and is just not that hard to check for. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD