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(...) I know, I know. :) I subscribe to the same philosophy, and the way it is now is not the way I think it ought to work either... (don't worry) Haven't fixed it up nice yet because it involves reading either the '.overview' file or the 'active' (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Playing around with this lead me to the following nifty discovery (which I should have known you'd do, since you understand the "principle of least surprise") I can manipulate the numbers as I wish! If I go up to the URL box and change (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Its almost as if Todd can read minds. scary... chris barnes ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hrmmm. I would go look for that but I've had problems compiling things for the most part. I guess I've been too spoiled by dealing with the convenient rpm's I can use with Redhat. I wonder if it has been compiled and offered up in that format? (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh heh, that would take all the fun out of user interface design. :) Actually, my background is in UI stuff, and I most enjoy writing software that I actually end up getting to use, so I try to make things extra geeky sometimes (where it (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) snip (...) As a developer of enduser apps for windows environments I appreciate seeing elegant designs. Too many times developers misuse the tools they have to create kludgy, hard to use interfaces. The web interface you have is such that I am (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nit 1: Can you give me both a forward range, and a backward range? when on 300-349, there's nothing to go backward a chunk. And make the chunk size match what chunk size you're showing, in both directions (except don't go below 1, of course, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Forward == the direction I am going based on the sense of the two numbers? If so, yes. (...) That was fast, thanks. (...) Well, they're *different*, but (and I hate to nitpick a nitpick (1)) not *meaningful*. A second sheet of paper doesn't (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I was thinking of putting those at the top & bottom of the table-listing as "more..." for each direction, plus keeping the forward at the top...sound ok? (...) oops, this was an oversight. And to think I wrote code to make sure it displayed (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's supposed to suggest that you're writing a message "on top of" the other one -- i.e., following up the original with your new one. (...) Egad -- bite your tongue -- those NS4 icons are terrible! (I've had them turned off since installing (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Another possibility along those lines is: For Post, a little page being inserted into the book with a down-arrow between the page and the book, and for Cancel, a little page being floated out of the book with an up-arrow between the page and (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I rather like them. A new message IS different than a reply. (...) Well I see you changed "Post" to "New" and changed the page offset in "Reply". Much clearer. Happy enough. Thanks. ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface (...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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