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Posted by STILL LEARNING on 02/09/07 03:55
On Feb 8, 1:53 pm, Sherm Pendley <spamt...@dot-app.org> wrote:
> Completely off-topic, but I hope it's forgivable since I'm trying to help
> someone's arthritic grandma! :-)
>
> Have you had her try using a trackball instead of a mouse? The reason being,
> I've noticed that for a lot of older folks, the "click" motion isn't entirely
> separated from the mouse-moving motion, and a click results in the pointer
> moving a bit.
>
> With a trackball you can lift your thumb (or whatever digit you're using)
> from the ball to freeze the pointer in place while you're clicking the
> button.
>
> sherm--
Aww. Your mother must be proud of you honey! :) Yessir, I've only
got one Nana left, and she's an original.
She won't use a trackball. Don't even ask! She also will NOT use the
(she calls it the "Cripple" button -- meaning, the features that
ENLARGE type etc., thereby making life a lot easier for her long-
suffering granddaughter, amonst other people lol -- the icon with the
wheelchair thingy in the Control Panel) (she is herself of course in a
wheelchair ) (don't get me started lol).
Look folks, I just wanted to see if there was a way to "fill" the
available space of an email window with a solid graphic that I can
make that says, "Okay Nana, click ANYWHERE in this window -- don't
worry about fumbling with your cursor, just get it in the window
_somewhere_ and click that bad boy." I used to send her emails in
gigantic type size and got read the riot act for my trouble.
"I assure you I can READ young lady, you don't need to (snip) ~"
Sound familiar? Anyone else having loads of fun dealing with a feisty
90-Something? ha ha Yes, well. You'll be in your 90's too some day,
God willing!
But I am exploring something that looks intriguing:
Ace HTML Free has a feature that will let you (allegedly) -->>email
the BODY of an html document from within Ace. The key word here is
the BODY of the html is mailed, not merely sent as an attachment
(which I can already do right now).
It of course doesn't work (groan, what else is new) but I am
researching this. It may be looking for Outlook, which I don't use,
but we'll see. Honestly, if anyone knows of a program that can pull
raw HTML into an email client, display it, and then send it . . . I'd
appreciate knowing about it, since there is no apparent "Do It
Yourself" solution.
SL'in
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