On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:58:25 -0700 , Mike Leavitt wrote:-
> Hello Allan,
>
> On 16-Apr-99, Allan Girvan wrote:
[snip]
> > Second impressions, however...
> >
> > Here's a strange thing - if you click on an email address in the headers
> > shown at the top of the message reader you used to get the "new message"
> > window appearing twice. Now Microdot loads up *Voyager* and then passes the
> > email address to V. On my system Voyager is set to use Microdot for mails
> > so... you guessed it... Voyager opens a *second* copy of Microdot to reply
> > to the adresss you clicked on in the first copy.
>
> And since I have YAM set as my Voyager mailer, Microdot passes it to Voyager
> and Voyager opens up YAM! Truely Bizarre. I get around that by showing it
> as a header so I don't have to click in the top of the message because it is
> in the main window too.
Here's something even more entertaining...
Without loading either Voyager or Microdot, load up MUI's main preferences
and go to the "TextInput" item in the listview.
In TextInput's "Sample" page you'll see Olli's email address in the
"NoInput" line - click on that and Whoosh!
First Voyager loads then Microdot (listen to that hard drive thrash!) ;-)
Don't do this if Voyager is already loaded up - for some reason it freezes
up entirely (any ideas, Olli?)
I'm actuallly having a lot of fun playing with this "feature" - in effect
it means that *any* program which uses the TextInput class has an automatic
"reply to email" built in (okay, so it's only under certain circumstances
but I think that this should be *developed* rather than eliminated).
Now I'm off to trawl round Aminet to see which MUI-based programs are
suddenly "Email Aware"!
(Now, if only someone could patch *WorkBench* to use TextInput...) ;-)
Cheers,
Allan.
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