- - The reality. Was: Hardware andDLLinterfacing in BlackBox

From: Fyodor Tkachov <"Fyodor>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:12:04 -0700

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> Using a mouse is like typing with one thumb,
> and you can manage hundreds of files instantly without touching a mouse, if you set it up nicely.
> You don't even need a mouse or to move your hands from home position on the keyboard for the fastest menu ever.

May be I am missing something but:

Type Ctrl+Q to insert commander in any BlackBox doc;
type your command, with some arguments, if necessary;
type space, type further arguments (to be read in form the command's procedure via In.Open, In.String....);
click on the commander -- ah, THAT's what's bothering you!

It boils down to a keyboard shortcut to run a command without mouse-clicking on the commander.
Perhaps that's a missing piece in BlackBox -- and is not hard to implement.

Otherwise I don't see any functional or typing limitations compared with working from console.

Of course there must be a proper set of commands for your application.

Actually, it's a nice little project, to create a set of commands to interpret console-like input in order to perform some standard actions (ls, cp, mv, ?).
Rex's remarks indicate that it would help planetary scientists to switch to the 21 century technologies :-)

Could also be useful in a natively run BlackBox too. Not that there are specific plans for that...

Cheers
Fyodor



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