From: Raymond Mercier (RaymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 12:57:52 EDT
I am glad it now works for you, and thanks for the comments. I will think
about possible improvements, especially whether something useful should
happen when one of the fonts is clicked.
Raymond
At 09:28 02/05/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>This version works fine for me on XP. This is a useful program!
>
>The UI is kind of funny, however... It has a main window that's blank,
>then a panel which has the UI in it. Why not use just the one main window?
>
>I would recommend a bit different UI for selections. Clicking on a font
>should automatically clear the selection, select only the clicked block,
>then display all the fonts which cover that block. Then, if you SHIFT-click
>(or ctrl-click) on a block, it should add the block to the selection, so
>you can find all the fonts which contain A+B, or A+B+C, etc.
>
>In other words, you should follow the usual sort of UI for making multiple
>selections on Windows:
> Click makes ONE selection (and clears any previous)
> Shift-Click extends the selection to cover intervening elements
> Control-Click ADDS one element to the selection.
>
>Try the "Windows Explorer" app for comparison.
>
>Cheers,
> Rick
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