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Article #7009Re: finder irritations
From: Vincent van der Laan
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 12:50
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 12:50
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In article <1989Oct17.220051.25171@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
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> I remember hearing somewhere that the 'new' finder will not bring a
> window forward, or some such, until a mouse-up. So you press the button
> on the file, and if you keep the button down {very reasonable assumption
> IMHO} then you're proably doing a file-drag for a copy or some such.
>
> Having played with this idea some in my current projects it works quite
> well. The users really don't care if a window isn't selected until the
> mouse-up, and in fact I personal haven't noticed much difference in
> operation as far as window selection goes.
>
> This is all based on memory, and I might be confused... But if I am
> confused I'd like to submit this idea as a possible solution. Seems
> elegant {sp??} to me, so that must mean I didn't think of it. :-)
I was at the Apple Macintosh Developers Conference in Paris and sure
enough, this feature of System 7.0 was demonstrated (the crowd cheered)!
I don't know implementation details though. Anyway, we just have to wait
till 7.0 comes out. (BTW it was great to see the outline fonts!)
Greetings, Vincent.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!wmt!vila From: vila@wmt.UUCP (Vincent van der Laan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: finder irritations Summary: one finder irritation less! Message-ID: <383@wmt.UUCP> Date: 24 Oct 89 12:50:56 GMT References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1166@key.COM> <1989Oct17.220051.25171@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Lines: 29