[Oberon] frames, displays and screens;

[eas lab]

The *VALUE* of these tricks is determined by biological/evolutionary
factors, which we technologists are mostly unaware of.

*They* would collect data from experiments:
  eg. for 5 frames: how does user remember that a, c are text1,
  and b, d, e are text2; whereas we have evolved to know that
 the moving item remains the same item.

Color is perhaps an underused attribute.
If the 2 sets were colored, we'd know that all reds are the same item.

Re. recognition: a writer to this mail-list made a potentially interesting
<functional Oberon> which, by using M$ conventions of having Identifiers
as "multiple separated words" was intolerable to me.

But <sentences of words for file names> seem quite popular and successful?
Imagine if the concise, minimalist music notation, which has survived for
centuries, was also "fadded" to poet/journalist notation.

== Chris Glur.


On 7/4/16, peter at easthope.ca <peter at easthope.ca> wrote:
> From:	Andreas Pirklbauer <andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com>
> Date:	Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:17:51 +0200
>> In essence one can create sev=
>> eral (separate!) logical display areas that all look like the standard
>> Obero=
>> n display (works like virtual screens in macOS, i.e. one can just switch
>> fro=
>> m one to another).
>
> OK, thanks.  Rather than scroll a big display up-down and left-right
> on a smaller screen, the user will jump from one logical screen to another.
>
>
> Both scrolling and jumping could be in one system.  Eg. arrange your
> virtual screens vertically (or horizontally) and allow scrolling and jumping
>
> up/down (or left/right).
>
>> It's just a small experiment to prepare Oberon for a tablet version.
>
> Seems you are on the right track.  Thanks!
>
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