On 7/6/02 1:21 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've tried both methods. Steal a sig version 2 used to have such a 'control'
> script for setting the preferences, but I got feedback from several users
> that it was confusing - they didn't realise what the other script was
> supposed to do, when they wanted to change a pref they forgot how to do it,
> or lost the control script etc. When I updated SaS for vX I used the new
> method. Just about everyone can remember to select the word 'help' and run
> the script to get a help message that details all the options that are
> available and how to access them.

If you name the control script just the same as the main script and add
"PREFS" to it, it's pretty clear what's it's for. I haven't had any such
complaints from users about my various PREFS script. The advantage is that
you don't have to remember anything at all - it's right below the main
script I suppose if you use a keyboard shortcut for the main script people
might not think of looking in the menu. (?)  This becomes a bigger advantage
if you want several different options: I had one script in 2001 that had
three different modifier key options to do different things. I don't suppose
anyone could ever remember those, although a simple command key, for one
prefs run,  is usually easy enough to memorize. there's certainly more than
one way to do this.

-- 
Paul Berkowitz


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