Dear MasterBreaker!
“I found it hard and awkward to use.”,
“I hope you don't think I'm being too critical.”
I would not say, that you are too critical, but I must say that you apparently haven't understood the purpose of the program at all and thus most of your critic is useless.
This program is designed to aid people with difficulties in vision or in motion, like the guy I care for three times a week, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Due to destruction of the bigger parts of his cerebellum, he is not able to fix his eyes properly, which is a common symptom of MS. He is even more handicapped concerning his motion. The space bar is the only key he can hit on the keyboard – if he really concentrates on it – since he is not quite in control of his movements. I have made many tests with him and the control with both mouse-buttons and the space bar appeared the easiest to him. Another problem is, that he cannot stroke the keys quickly but uses to hammer them down for about a second or so. That’s why the program is so heavily delayed.
“ I also thought the mouse buttons operated opposite to what a westerner would expect in the text reading section.”
That is true though. My client said this, too. It should be changed in later versions.
“The menu itself is very slow and unresponsive on my machine.”
As described above, this is done on purpose. The program is deliberately delayed (delay is adjustable, too, as you might have recognized).
“Also, why is there no end of line word wrapping? “
Some users adjust the text so huge, that there is not even ONE word on the screen at once, because they are so heavily handicapped in vision. End of line word wrapping would be senseless.
“I would also recommend putting in a quick ESC key exit.”
It is specially designed to work with three keys. As with my client, many people are unable to hit the ESC – key.
Your sincerely
Boris Bornemann
“I found it hard and awkward to use.”,
“I hope you don't think I'm being too critical.”
I would not say, that you are too critical, but I must say that you apparently haven't understood the purpose of the program at all and thus most of your critic is useless.
This program is designed to aid people with difficulties in vision or in motion, like the guy I care for three times a week, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Due to destruction of the bigger parts of his cerebellum, he is not able to fix his eyes properly, which is a common symptom of MS. He is even more handicapped concerning his motion. The space bar is the only key he can hit on the keyboard – if he really concentrates on it – since he is not quite in control of his movements. I have made many tests with him and the control with both mouse-buttons and the space bar appeared the easiest to him. Another problem is, that he cannot stroke the keys quickly but uses to hammer them down for about a second or so. That’s why the program is so heavily delayed.
“ I also thought the mouse buttons operated opposite to what a westerner would expect in the text reading section.”
That is true though. My client said this, too. It should be changed in later versions.
“The menu itself is very slow and unresponsive on my machine.”
As described above, this is done on purpose. The program is deliberately delayed (delay is adjustable, too, as you might have recognized).
“Also, why is there no end of line word wrapping? “
Some users adjust the text so huge, that there is not even ONE word on the screen at once, because they are so heavily handicapped in vision. End of line word wrapping would be senseless.
“I would also recommend putting in a quick ESC key exit.”
It is specially designed to work with three keys. As with my client, many people are unable to hit the ESC – key.
Your sincerely
Boris Bornemann