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by Van
Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:55 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: DOn't like those niggardly one pixel mouse handles
Replies: 3
Views: 12051

Thanks, the 2 pixels then is too thin, takes some doing to stop my mouse on it, and yes I like agile mouse movement... Some programs make wider region in the middle of the dividing line (typically ~1 inch long) which is probably some 6 pixels wide or whatever, which makes for more sure grabbing ...
by Van
Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:00 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: DOn't like those niggardly one pixel mouse handles
Replies: 3
Views: 12051

DOn't like those niggardly one pixel mouse handles

Hi there, I must tell you I simply hate those one pixel thick active spots (lines) where you grab with your mouse and drag the separator between window, like between the main view and the side window (the one where you see your bookmarks for example) Why make it so hard to center mouse on that line ...
by Van
Thu Mar 21, 2002 6:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Has Atlantis died a death
Replies: 20
Views: 23329

Re: Has Atlantis died a death

well this place may be quiet sometimes but Atlantis is alive, on my machine anyway<br><br>Even the difficulty I had with a foreign language display is somehow gone, I used to complain about it and was told there is nothing wrong with it, the other day I noticed it works now, it must have been fixed ...
by Van
Thu Mar 21, 2002 6:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Compliments and a Suggestion
Replies: 12
Views: 11801

Re: Compliments and a Suggestion

been discussed before, just add 'no splash' to your shortcut like this<br><br>"C:\Programs\Atlantis\Atlantis.exe -NoSplash"<br><br>in Target (properties of your Atlantis shortcut)<br><br>V
by Van
Sun Jul 15, 2001 11:01 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis 'Options...'
Replies: 6
Views: 14771

Re: Atlantis 'Options...'

Quote: <br><br>"Though you do not need this info in order to use this feature. Atlantis would restore documents from these safe copies itself. You should not care about this at all. Just enable the Safeguarding. Atlantis will do its best."<br><br>Then why make it an option to checkmark, why should ...
by Van
Sun Jul 15, 2001 10:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Explanation of newly introduced features of AOM
Replies: 3
Views: 8831

Re: Explanation of newly introduced features of AO

It crossed my mind when when I wrote my original post that it might be interpreted as some slighting of this feature... you make it look as if I am against computers, technology as such ...<br>However I did not mean it like that. Do I have to say this????<br><br>What I was after was understanding ...
by Van
Sat Jul 14, 2001 1:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Explanation of newly introduced features of AOM
Replies: 3
Views: 8831

Explanation of newly introduced features of AOM

The last feature - "Enable click and type" - had me scratching my head ??? for a bit, the way it is described on Atlantis' website did not give me much understanding as to what we really have here.<br><br>After a while, I figured out that this feature really doesn't do anything else that one couldn ...
by Van
Sat Jul 14, 2001 1:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis 'Options...'
Replies: 6
Views: 14771

Create Backup Files option...

I don't usually use this option because I find that my folders are cluttered up with '.bak' files, making these folders difficult to survey, finding stuff in them 'by hand' ...<br><br>How about the possibility of selecting a special destination for these .bak files, their own "Atlantis.BAK" folder ...
by Van
Sat Jul 14, 2001 12:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Thanks
Replies: 1
Views: 9726

Re: Thanks

<br><br>My thanks go, besides to the whole marvelous piece of programming that AOM is, also to the 'Full screen - F9' and the amazing 'drag & drop' features. <br><br>These alone make the AOM a 'writers word processor' of choice. When I am composing two pages of tightly argumented commentary, or a ...
by Van
Wed Jun 20, 2001 8:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

Re: Future Suggestions

OK, I'll work on it and see what I can do...<br><br>I see it about 50/50 that its my fault or Atlantis'<br><br>The Czechs are unlucky with the high number of diacritical marks in their alphabet and a history of 'thousands' incompatible standards of how to fit all that on the conventional western ...
by Van
Tue Jun 19, 2001 12:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

Re: foreign languages ... I regret to say ...

... appear not to be quite there on Atlantis :(<br><br>What you explain here is OK as far as it goes ...<br><br>BUT - If I either 'cut and paste' or 'drag and drop' text of any major Czech newspaper from MSIE into WordTabs (my processor of choice before Atlantis), it is simply the way it should be ...
by Van
Sun Jun 17, 2001 2:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Paragraph styles plus Character styles
Replies: 1
Views: 6917

Paragraph styles plus Character styles

As I am begining to understand style mechanics on Atlantis, it looks as if we have paragraph based styles which include font styles for whole paragraphs.<br><br>What I am wondering about is if we could look forward to a separate implementation of so called "Character styles" - a kind of 'word(s ...
by Van
Sun Jun 17, 2001 12:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Support for other email clients?
Replies: 21
Views: 28965

Re: Support for other email clients?

Yes, the DVD is such a good example...<br><br>Its like going back to the time of feudal fiefdom, where the king gave a town or the whole county to a noble... <br>It is seriously holding back progress in that field. CDR could have been replaced today by DVDR<br><br>If you like alternatives to some ...
by Van
Sat Jun 16, 2001 10:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

Re: Future Suggestions

First, thanks for the direction to the Czech spellchecker - one interesting thing... The Czech version has the most words, almost three million words, only Finnish checker comes close in under two million word, the others only in hundreds of thousands words... :)<br><br>Where did you dig this up ...
by Van
Sat Jun 16, 2001 2:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Support for other email clients?
Replies: 21
Views: 28965

Re: Support for other email clients?

Sorry to have raised your ire ...<br><br>By customer base, I really meant 'user base' which applies to anything equally. About difficulties connected with this issue, I'll say something later.<br><br>You write that:<br>"OE is a giant collection of security holes masquerading as an email client. It ...
by Van
Sat Jun 16, 2001 1:13 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Template library
Replies: 14
Views: 14369

Re: Template library

Sorry not to have replied right away, to keep you in suspense about my density. ;)<br><br>After I posted here, I went back to the Atlantis and figured the template 'trick' out. <br><br>I must say, I never used this method of accessing menu commands this way, although its quite powerfull. I have been ...
by Van
Sat Jun 16, 2001 1:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

Re: Future Suggestions

Hyphens ...<br><br>I would like to see them in future releases, and soft hyphens too, that show only when a word comes to the end of line and breakes into two parts.<br><br>Columns of text are not a bad idea either...<br><br>But let's not get too hungry for features ;)<br><br>In 'find and replace ...
by Van
Fri Jun 15, 2001 9:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis 'Options...'
Replies: 6
Views: 14771

Re: Atlantis 'Options...'

Well, thanks for telling me anyway, at least now I can stop shouting at my monitor... "What's this, I said full path ???" ...every time I open a doc<br><br>It was making me a bit hoarse already... ;) <br><br> :D Van
by Van
Fri Jun 15, 2001 9:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

Re: Future Suggestions

Yep, it is never done, ever ;)<br><br>And, what would you expect, but they try things ...and everything too :o<br><br>In that spirit, I tested if drag'n drop might already work between at least Atlantis and Atlantis. I know it is not implemented yet, but between brothers (Atlantis and Atlantis of ...
by Van
Thu Jun 14, 2001 11:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Future Suggestions
Replies: 21
Views: 30977

How to get around the split window feature

As I may already have mentioned, I often write commentaries on various articles and I need to see the text I comment on (preferably several paragraphs of it) while also seeing decent section of what I am writing. <br>Today I opened one document and then I clicked on the Atlantis shortcut once more ...