Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:34:04PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/2/2013 7:15 AM, Manu wrote:
> >On 2 September 2013 23:50, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
> ><mailto:andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >    On 9/2/13, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com <mailto:turkeyman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     > But I still barely see this as an inconvenience when compared
> >     > to not being able to read a class definition.
> >
> >    How about not being able to read the include paths in VS? I'm
> >    talking about this:
> >
> >    http://i.stack.imgur.com/0cTZG.png
> >
> >    You can view 2 lines at a time. After almost 20 years they still
> >    haven't fixed this. Where is their core dev team that should make
> >    the IDE experience great?
> >
> >
> >Classic.
> 
> It is classic. Scott Meyers did a presentation on that, calling it
> the "keyhole" interface, because it shows the view as if you looked
> at the data through a keyhole.
> 
> Sometimes I defeat the keyhole by doing a "select all" in it, and
> then pasting it into notepad. I do the reverse, too: if the text
> entry box is only an inch square (some companies do this), I'll
> compose the message in notepad then cut&paste it into the keyhole.

It's things like this "keyhole interface", that caused me to be
convinced that the GUI emperor has no clothes, and to turn to CLI-only
development.


T

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