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From: grue@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov)
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy - Fan Art
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 19:25:53 +0100, "CeeJay" <newsgroups@ceejay.cjb.nOt> tried to
confuse everyone with this message:

>> At the moment I do not have much motivation working on JavE. Also there
>> are not many people asking for bug fixes or improvements... :-(
>
>I'M BUSY OK ! .. Geez *g* (demanding isn't he ?)
>
>If you have extra time on your hands take a look at the many suggestions of mine you
>have'nt implemented yet.
>
>My greatest hope is still that you make JavE work like Textpad with it's textwriting and
>selection in one tool.
>It should work like this :
>When you just click on a cell you move the cursor there and activate text mode.
>However if you drag (more than a few pixels) you switch to selection mode and drag a
>selection box - that you can drag aound and do all the other nice stuff with until you
>once again singleclick outside of the selection area.

Also I don't think using Shift for selection is good. It's kinda annoying when
you are typing shift-characters and accidentally select something and you need
to click text tool button again. Or maybe implement hotkeys? So if an accident
happens you can press ^T for example and continue typing. 

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