Re: Great SWT Program

On Dec 6, 10:12 am, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
That there is wonky modeful behavior in OSX hardly surprises me; it is
after all unix-derived. It is also utterly irrelevant to whether there
is such behavior in Windows.

We are discussing graphical window managers vs textual ones. OSX is a
graphical window manager.

We are discussing which of these CANNOT AVOID wonky behavior. Windows
can and does. OSX can but does not. And, of course, screen cannot and
does not.

How crufty. Putting it into the clipboard is far more elegant than
forcing you to name it and pick some place to store it, then find it
in some other app, load it, copy it, and paste it into another
document in that app. :P

[babble and implied insults deleted]

None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at
all true.

While you are in this mode, your applications are unresponsive.

How crufty.

Yeah, graphical window managers can be like that.

OSX and screen can be like that, you mean. Windows of course does not
have this problem. Actually it has the opposite problem: no easy and
application-independent way to pause a program *when you want to*,
whether to snap a screenshot or for other purposes. This is certainly
theoretically possible since it has preemptive multitasking.

(Except for DOS apps, which seem to get treated to the OSX/screen
variation of behavior instead.)

But it has to actually physically surround it as well, in order to
provide a concurrent UI of its own without any nasty cruft.

Certainly not. Not all functionality requires constant visual
decoration.

No, only interactive functionality, and only to avoid cruftiness,
error-proneness, and novice user bafflement. So if you're willing to
tolerate the latter three, or the functionality is just automatic
copying of all the output to a prespecified logfile or something like
that...
.

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