Invisible wrote:
> Pretty sure AmigaOS doesn't support model dialogs. 

Heck, even *I* remember that AmigaOS had model dialogs. Now, most of the 
workbench-level software didn't use them, but I remember the apps having 
them.  (I wonder if I could still find my old Amiga OS books...)

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Pretty sure AmigaOS doesn't support model dialogs. 
> 
> Heck, even *I* remember that AmigaOS had model dialogs. Now, most of the 
> workbench-level software didn't use them, but I remember the apps having 
> them.  (I wonder if I could still find my old Amiga OS books...)

I don't recall any program using the standard Intuition interface having 
model dialogs. Sure, if you build a highly custom UI of your own rather 
than using the OS, you can implement whatever you like. But that's 
hardly an OS feature. ;-)

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Invisible wrote:
> Sure, if you build a highly custom UI of your own rather 
> than using the OS, you can implement whatever you like. But that's 
> hardly an OS feature. ;-)

I mean, there were flags for controlling whether your window got the title 
bar and such, yes?  At least I *think* so.

Of course, lots of programs that wanted to be "modal" just opened an entire 
screen. ;-)

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>> Sure, if you build a highly custom UI of your own rather than using 
>> the OS, you can implement whatever you like. But that's hardly an OS 
>> feature. ;-)
> 
> I mean, there were flags for controlling whether your window got the 
> title bar and such, yes?  At least I *think* so.

Year, you can turn off the titlebar (usually only for a splash screen), 
the close button, the resize gadget, and so forth. It's just that 
programs typically didn't do this.

> Of course, lots of programs that wanted to be "modal" just opened an 
> entire screen. ;-)

...or that, yes. ;-)

However, screens can be rearranged. :-D

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Invisible wrote:
> Year, you can turn off the titlebar (usually only for a splash screen), 
> the close button, the resize gadget, and so forth. It's just that 
> programs typically didn't do this.

Yes, because AmigaOS wasn't a PITA to run multiple threads in one program 
that didn't get screwed up by unusual interactions with multiple windows. ;-)

Contrast with MacOS or Win3.

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Pretty sure AmigaOS doesn't support model dialogs.
> 
> Heck, even *I* remember that AmigaOS had model dialogs. Now, most of the
> workbench-level software didn't use them, but I remember the apps having
> them.  (I wonder if I could still find my old Amiga OS books...)

Funny how you misspelled "modal dialogs" the same way as him.

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Darren New wrote:
> clipka wrote:
>> Ah well, and did I mention that KDE4 uses a totally different font size
>> in a XDMCP login than it does when logged in locally?
> 
> Don't fonts always come from the local machine? Or did they fix this in X
> by now?

X has a "font server" for sure. But I have no idea how it works. I never 
used remote X for serious purposes.

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On 11/17/09 07:38, Invisible wrote:
> The other thing that annoys me is the scroll wheel. Why oh why oh WHY
> does it NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, SCROLL THE THING YOU WANT TO
> SCROLL?! >_<
>
> This is so exasperating! I point at something, scroll the wheel, and
> some unrelated item somewhere else on the screen scrolls. WTF? The most

	Because you didn't give it focus. As Darren mentioned, you can switch 
to point-to-focus, and then it'll likely work.
en!

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Funny how you misspelled "modal dialogs" the same way as him.

That can happen when the word is right in front of your face, yes. I fixed 
it in the other post. :-)

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waiting for the "Blender sucks" daily povray newsgroups bash tomorrow.

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