Dragaera

What do you think of this?

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Sat Aug 28 15:43:25 PDT 2004

It's a good beginning, but it doesn't have any personality for me. It's
just a generic face. That doesn't mean to stop!! I should've said, it
doesn't have any personality for me YET.

I finally figured out how to work the controls; the instructions are,
shall we say, insufficient. "Left click image to rotate. Hold space to
pan or control to zoom." So you left click the image and nothing
happens, nothing at all. I finally, accidentally, discovered that I
have to left-DRAG on the image to rotate it. And generalizing from that,
I was able to work out that I have to hold the space bar or control key
down while dragging in order to pan or to zoom. (Space-drag is a
peculiar concept. I've been using computers since the 1960s, and SHIFT,
CONTROL, and ALT, alone and in combination, are familiar to me and
probably to almost every other computer user, but using a character key
as a modifier is kind of mind-boggling. Maybe it is standard in image
manipulation, but this isn't an image manipulation list.) -- So, if you
can, you might want to modify those instruction texts.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   http://cracksandshards.com
   a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]