POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Microsoft Arrrrggghhh! : Re: Microsoft Arrrrggghhh! Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:11:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Microsoft Arrrrggghhh!  
From: Darren New
Date: 25 Jul 2009 18:56:27
Message: <4a6b8d9b$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:
> Nor an indication that you use that feature, nor a copy only newer 
> files, nor anything else that was included in all commandline interface 
> and third party filecopy programs for ages.

Command line is certainly easier when you have more than a handful but less 
than (say) 20 options for a program, yes.

> I think someone told that the reason was that they only designed boxes 
> with two buttons. So apparently the graphics design artist got priority 
> over useablility. 

More like "we already have a library routine for 2 buttons" than something 
graphics design, perhaps.

> Still no reason to not change the text on the buutons 
> when you pressed a qualifier.

Agreed. One would think that would be easy.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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