Hello August!
*** Tuesday 18.01.22 at 07:29, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:
AA>>> I'm still trying to wrap my head over the adhoc Origin line
AA>>> feature in OXP. Dunno what to do with it...
MF>> Hmmmmm, I find it quite useful and it's quick and easy to
MF>> use.
AA> I haven't seen you use it very much. :/
I haven't used it much, I only use it when the need arises :)
AA>>> And.. the adhoc one is replaced one with the static one
AA>>> if there is a need to re-edit the message body before
AA>>> sending it.
MF>> Yes, that's correct.
AA> That is a bit annoying especially if one has spent time to
AA> craft something witty and profound but a simple re-edit would
AA> undo it.
I find it *very* annoying actually.
AA>>> What is the designer's/programmer's idea behind the function?
MF>> A basic simple way of changing the pre-defined origin for
MF>> the current message. However, there's plenty of scope for
MF>> improvement in future releases.
AA> But then why not build it so that it extracts predefined text
AA> (that is known to fit) in that space?
Yes, why not?
Perhaps you could ask the developer about that.
AA> I am just having trouble understanding what exactly the
AA> designer had in mind to put in there each and every time.
See [1] below .....
AA>>> How is anyone else using it?
MF>> Ummmmmmmm :)
MF>> -+- OpenXP 5.0.51
MF>> + Origin: OpenXP-Team (2:310/31.3)
AA> OK, sure.. nice, short and simple. But wouldn't it make better
AA> sense to craft different versions of it so that you can pick
AA> them from a drop-down or something?
A better solution would have been to implement something along the lines
of the Glossary feature, whereby all the user needs to do is to press
<Alt+G> from within the editor and then select an item from the pre-
defined list that pops up. In this case, it would be a list of origin
lines pre-defined by the user in an ascii text file, e.g. "origins.txt"
and the key-press could be <Alt+O>.
[snip]
AA> The designer had *something* in mind for its REGULAR use so
AA> that there were no incidents like re-entering that text.
[1] Seeing as origin lines could be defined on a global, group and area level,
somebody(me) thought it would be nice if they could also be defined
at the single message level and I duly put in a feature request for a
*simple*, *basic* means of doing so. He duly obliged by implementing
exactly what I'd asked for, no more, no less.
Regards,
Martin
--- OpenXP 5.0.51
* Origin: Watch This Space (2:310/31.3)
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