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Re: [ECS] dos base continued Dan Carrington Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:51:53 -0800

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I really don't know what to tell you Mark, as ECS is a very simple
program to navigate, but computer users that are not really computer
literate like things to look and work like they are used to.  In many
ways, the File/Edit/View/Etc are redundant ways to find the commands
that are many times found with the right mouse button, screen buttons,
or hot keys/Function keys.  Also, extra commands that would be clutter
or rarely use for screen buttons.  Things under file would be Save,
Print current event, print all events, print cfg, and exit.  Things I
could see in edit would the undo, cut, copy, paste, delete, select all,
find, find next, replace and such.  You could have direct buttons for
showing which events and groups an item is in and what other items are
the same type.  The info that used to be found by hitting "?" five times
at the item's name in the item menu.  I still don't know how to find
that info under windows.  How about debugging commands?  The commands to
visually watch ECS go through the event lines and process events.  The
commands to record and save the program level processing that we send
you for debugging.  Commands to watch a serial port to capture commands
from something.  One more nice thing to have on the menu, is the help
selection with the info option under it to find out what version of ECS
you are on.  You could put your address, e-mail, phone, etc under the
info if you wanted.  You could put registration info if you are running
the light version and want to buy the full version.  

Dan Carrington




Mark Gilmore wrote:
> 
> This is just my humble opinion, but I THINK that
> if I were a PC novice, that the current ECS menu
> is much more intuitive than "FILE/EDIT/VIEW/etc".
> I don't even know what "EDIT" & "VIEW" menus
> would relate to in this context.
> 
> I guess I could make a "FILE/MESSAGES/ITEMS/EVENTS/HELP"
> menu though. The reason I didn't do this in the 1st place
> was to save on screen space.
> --
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
> omnip@usit.net
> http://www.usit.com/omnip

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