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This is ONE OF 4 responses to volume 1, John Card Number 22 ("Suggestion Box")...
In that time-honored tradition of computer users, I suggest we compile a wish-list of items to be added (by John) to Archipelago. To start the ball rolling, I have a few suggestions:
- It was very disconcerting, on entering my first voice card, to have it vanish into thin air (as I thought at the time). New voice cards should be automatically cataloged and should be viewable in the same fashion as older Voices/Echoes.
- A DELETE button should be available on all new Voice/Echo cards. The first time I deleted an unsatisfactory card using the HyperCard menubar option I half-expected to break Archipelago. While I am pleased to report that this did NOT break anything, I feel that there are two issues which need addressing:
- Users should not be expected to understand *anything* about HyperCard to perform common Archipelago functions.
- Common Archipelago functions such as this should be readily available and self-documenting.
- I managed to get several "about Paul and his Macintosh" cards on the transit stack. This should not be possible; the most recently contributed changes should supercede all others.
- Clicking on the forward/reverse arrows of voice cards from the transit stack (as opposed to using the left- and right- cursor keys) should NOT send you back to the voice cards. This is awful! (Would anyone care to guess how many times I've inadvertently done this?)
- It would be really nifty to have a utility which facilitated the entry of Voice cards in-between issues of Archipelago, i.e., most of the time.
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