On Dec 18, 2006, at 22:12 UTC, Andy Dent wrote: > I posted a request to swap the New Window and New Project command keys: > > " > To match Finder behaviour and reflect that New Window will be chosen > much more often than New Project, the command-key for File - New > Window should be changed to Command-N.
Yikes! I hope they don't do that. I pretty much never want a new window, but I create a new project all the time. Other applications which allow multiple windows on the same document generally use cmd-N to mean new document, and something else (no standard that I've seen) to present a new window (sometimes called a "view") on the same document. I agree about the muscle memory thing though -- it would seriously screw me up if cmd-N no longer created a new document! > I've added a comment to remind them of the hole in their argument: > "In response to your review, you are ALREADY BREAKING MUSCLE MEMORY > from the Finder, where I use New Window via command-N all the time, > far more often than I do in REALbasic. The Finder is not a document-oriented app. What would the Finder equivalent of creating a new document be? Create a new disk image? That's silly -- it's clearly not analogous. If the Finder *were* a document-oriented app, I bet cmd-N would create a new document there too. > How often do you create new projects vs using the New Window command? I create new projects probably 5 or 6 six times a day (most of these are just for testing something out in a clean environment, and then I close them without saving). I use the New Window command... umm... maybe once a month or so? Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verified Express, LLC "Making the Internet a Better Place" http://www.verex.com/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
