Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Sep 2 14:04:22 PDT 2013
On 9/2/2013 1:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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.
One of the giant failures of the GUI interface, and that VS suffers from, too,
is when you need to do repetitive operations.
On the CLI, I constantly use the history list, and I constantly write throwaway
scripts to automate what I'm doing at the moment. It makes everything I do, no
matter how obscure, only 2 or 3 keypresses.
With VS, or any GUI, if there's not a button to do it, I'm reduced to:
move mouse
click
move mouse
click
move mouse
type
move mouse
click
type
to get something done. And if I want to do it again, I have to repeat that
process. After the 10th time, it's gaaaaahhh I hate it and go back to the CLI.
I scan a lot of photos. I have a GUI photo editor. A common thing I do is
straighten the photos, because they never go through the scanner straight. So it's:
right shift click on the picture
select open with
select photoeditor
select edit
select rotate
select autorotate
select apply
select save
select exit
Sounds easy, right? It is easy. Now do it to 1000 photos. With a command line tool:
write a script that does it to one picture, name it cc.bat
do:
dir/b *.jpg >doit.bat
open the file and use the macro feature to prepend "cc " to each file name,
maybe 10 keystrokes
execute the script
Done! And CLI Clint goes and surfs the n.g. while GUI Gus has just gotten to
picture 4, only 996 more to go!
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