On Tuesday 02 July 2002 15:11, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > [Even a Crash would be keramik] > Well, I don't have to tell what came in my mind as a sound for an app's > crash, do I? ;) > > [Pottery is heavy so what about inertia?] > Back to the feeling. When moving widgets like scrollbars or windows, > would it be cool if they would behave like real gadgets and show > inertia? Something for force feedback mouses, I guess though... my mouse > is a light one so I never would get the real feeling. Perhaps I can > stick a litte stone inside when using the keramik style... > > Well... there is not anybody between you that would be able to create > such sounds, I fear. But isn't it nice to share at least this dream? Oh, I don't think creating the sounds would be such a problem. I personally don't use much in the way of sounds for these events (they intrude on my concentration when I'm trying to work, and I prefer not to have such things going on when I'm possibly listening to something else, like a RealAudio stream), but I can see where plenty of people would like them, and I think it would truly be cool. However, I'd be a little concerned with the idea of "inertia". There are some things in the real world that shouldn't be modeled. As I'm fond of telling people, "the idea of a GUI isn't to model reality... it's to improve on it," something Apple should have realized when they made that abominable QuickTime interface. For example, a friend came up with a "3-D shopping mall"... while it SOUNDS cool, actually USING it sucks big-time compared to the ease of using regular hyperlinks. I strongly suspect that "inertia" would fall into the same category. Too many people would mistake it for sluggish performance. -- Dave Leigh, Consulting Systems Analyst Cratchit.org http://www.cratchit.org 864-427-7008 (direct) AIM or Yahoo!: leighdf MSN: leighdf29379@hotmail.com ICQ: 37839381 It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess. -- Roger Noe