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Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu
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Mike Castle |
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Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu |
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Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:55:42 -0500 (CDT) |
Amazingly enough Ismael Cordeiro said:
> That "problem" could be corrected by implementing more pages in the
> non-forms menu, with one option per page. The space bar would be used for
> changing pages, in the same way as in the multi-bookmarks menu.
Try using the old options code on a screen that isn't 23-25 lines or
greater or is > 25 lines. It either doesn't work or looks horrible.
Now, try using the forms based options code on something like that.
I often like to run lynx in a half-sized screen.
When I decided I wanted to enhance the lynx options code, this was a
concern of mine.
So, when looking at the options code, simply making another page wasn't
going to work. It would still have 25 line problem.
I thought about making a virtual screen, and having a way to scroll through
it. Then I realized two things.
First, horizontal isn't considered.
Second, vertical is already implemented as a basic capability of lynx
already.
And, for probably a couple of years, talk had be bantered about on the list
concerning a forms based options menu. So I decided to implement it.
I could have tried to implement something like what you suggested.
However, the difficulty would have been an order of magnitude greater.
From both a time perspective and a code resuability issue, this was the
better solution.
mrc
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- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/13
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, dickey, 1998/10/13
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Bela Lubkin, 1998/10/13
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Laura Eaves, 1998/10/13
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Laura Eaves, 1998/10/13
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Nelson Henry Eric, 1998/10/14
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, Lloyd G. Rasmussen, 1998/10/14
- Re: lynx-dev pre.10 : Options Form/Menu, dickey, 1998/10/18