Strike It Rich! Reversing the Trend of Web Clients
I agree with that. Windowing is used and I get asked about it in interviews. Mouse I haven't seen a need for, but a new interface should make function key buttons clickable anyway. Menuing I haven't used. You have to give people a reason to take their hands off the keyboard and onto a mouse to use a mouse, where getting "focus" may be a reason but not a productive one. A productive reason would be mouse driven interaction with other desktop apps such as drag and dropping data, resizing subfile table columns, clicking on a column to bring up a different read only view of the subfile sorted in the order clicked, etc. The main thing is to get a standard Java interface out there where a mouse can be used or not used, but if there's a productive way for people to use it then we'll program for it. rd
I agree with that. Windowing is used and I get asked about it in interviews. Mouse I haven't seen a need for, but a new interface should make function key buttons clickable anyway. Menuing I haven't used. You have to give people a reason to take their hands off the keyboard and onto a mouse to use a mouse, where getting "focus" may be a reason but not a productive one. A productive reason would be mouse driven interaction with other desktop apps such as drag and dropping data, resizing subfile table columns, clicking on a column to bring up a different read only view of the subfile sorted in the order clicked, etc. The main thing is to get a standard Java interface out there where a mouse can be used or not used, but if there's a productive way for people to use it then we'll program for it. rd
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