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RE: [ECS] dos base continued Kevin Keast Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:40:08 -0500

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How about help menus that are like all other help menus for windows.  That
is a biggie.

Also, as mentioned toolbars, allowing more ways to do the same thing.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carrington [mailto:dc_grafx@microworks.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 4:52 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] dos base continued
>
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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
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> 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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