Hello Avenarius,
Monday, September 25, 2000, 10:05:23 PM, you wrote:
A> A Bat-fellow, Mark Worsham,
A> wrote on Monday, September 25, 2000 at 16:13:54 (GMT -0500),
A> which was 23:13 in Bratislava --
MW>> Ahhh, so Gary means the actual checking of the little checkbox
MW>> instead of the actual removal of the messages.
MW>> True, you can't check more than one checkbox at a time, but that
MW>> is not unusual for Windows.
In my experience, that is unusual for Windows. The predominate
number of applications I know of allow multiple selection in a
listbox(I assume that the Mail Dispatcher is not using a list
listbox, but instead is rolling its own listbox and just does not
include this functionality)
A> For me, The Bat!'s Mail Dispatcher is all but useless. I usually
A> download emails only once a day, mostly at 7 in the evening. There are
A> usually around 400 messages waiting.
I don't find it useless, for me. But then, I get 20-30 messages
in a day. For my wife, its useless. Basically, its not designed
with a large scale number of messages in mind.
A> As a dial-up user, so far I've found no use whatsoever for the Mail
A> Dispatcher... Although the gadget seems to have been *invented* for
A> people who'd like to save unnecessary download times...
As an aside, you can find a number of tools similiar to the mail
dispatcher on Tucows. They allow multiple selection of messages,
filtering rules to delete spam and other garbage on the server
before downloading it, etc. Of course, then the question is why
not use those tools? Because then I have to register yet another
program, and The Bat is just soooo close to what I want that I'd
prefer to see if mentioning the need may encourage the developers
to implement this feature, but then I don't program UI's(hate
them hate them hate them!) and use widgets by others when I have
to, so I have no clue how difficult this is.
--
Using The Bat! 1.46c
under Windows NT
4.0 Build 1381
Service Pack 6, RC 1.5
Gary mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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