Re: Om: Re: NW 601 - what does it improve

From: Geoffrey Heard (gheard@SURF.NET.AU)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 10:20:18 AEDT


At 12:03 PM +0000 12/1/01, Andrew Rodger wrote:
>At 7:15 pm +1100 12/1/01, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>Then there are the ordinary citizens who finally learned top save
>>before they began to type!
>
>Well good for you. I have a working system which involves drawing and
>writing and it is very useful, because of the way I work, to have automated
>saving.  With my drawing application, on first save, it shows me an alert
>and beeps, with writing it shows me an alert and does not beep, so it is
>sort of half alert.  I cannot stand the machine babbling at me every time
>something comes up on the screen, so I do not do "speak alerts". I was
>merely asking for an option to have a wee beep to get my attention.
>Ironically I write looking down and I draw looking up. I was looking for
>logic rather than a work round, unless it is something I can tweak with
>ResEdit.

Relax Roger, I wasn't holding myself up as the greatest. It took
years, but it is a habit I have now adopted across all my programs,
writing, outlining, DTP, drawing, database, spreadsheet, even
emailing -- and I feel any program which does not autosave is
crippled (there's a lot of it about).

And, yes, I still get caught.

Speak alerts? Aaaaarrrggghhhhh! I fight a constant running battle
with the teenager to keep them turned off.

Cheers,
Geoff



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