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Article #6680Re: finder irritations
From: Kevin Hammond
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1989 18:44
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1989 18:44
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In article <ALMS.89Oct17173900@brazil.cambridge.apple.com> alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit) writes: >Whoops, I just thought of a problem with this. Right now the Finder >can assume that only the front window has selected items in it. >That model would have to be changed. Allowing selected items in >multiple windows would probably be a good thing, though. Yes, this can be a major irritation (try copying certain files from certain folders to floppy, or running an application with two files from different folders). Allowing selections over different disks might be a problem, though, perhaps? You might need to take individual error actions for each folder involved in the selection, for instance? Kevin -- Wot? No Signature? UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!kh JANET: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!kh From: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: finder irritations Message-ID: <3600@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 18 Oct 89 18:44:59 GMT References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1166@key.COM> <ALMS.89Oct17173900@brazil.cambridge.apple.com> Reply-To: kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland Lines: 19