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8 total messages Started by Eric M Hermanson Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:55
PasteUp Trick!
#1836
Author: Eric M Hermanson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:55
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In one of Right Brain Software's ads, it says something like:
Come see what sophistication lies beneath the Alternate Key.

Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
every window on the screen to float around wildly.

I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
versions have this cool "hidden feature".

Eric Hermanson
MIT NeXT Campus Consultant
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1846
Author: Kelly Thompson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:47
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In article <1993Jan11.035553.24510@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
>panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
>Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
>the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
>shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
>every window on the screen to float around wildly.
>

I was nosing around the app wrapper and found the 3 eps files
that did this little magic. I hadn't seen the effect yet and
wondered why they were there. 

Kelly
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1852
Author: Chris Penney
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:01
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Gee, how do I get my dock to always stay on the bottom?

-=Chris=-
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1854
Author: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:05
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zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>versions have this cool "hidden feature".

What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
about the screen.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail ok
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1859
Author: Eric M Hermanson
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:59
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In article <C0pv1n.Fry@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>>versions have this cool "hidden feature".
>
>What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
>any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
>Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
>$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
>about the screen.
>-- 
>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>-- NeXTmail ok

Boy Jeff, why don't you take a deep breath and lighten up a bit.

Eric
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1860
Author: Art Isbell
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:48
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In article <1993Jan12.035933.27818@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>In article <C0pv1n.Fry@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu writes:
>>zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>>I urge all owners of PasteUp to try this.  Let us know if all
>>>versions have this cool "hidden feature".

>>What really needs to be tested is the reasoning behind the need for
>>any of this to be done at all when everyone can do it themselves.
>>Also, why would any of this be necessary by PasteUp?  I'll save my
>>$600 and pay myself every time I move the dock down or shuffle windows
>>about the screen.

>>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>>-- NeXTmail ok

>Boy Jeff, why don't you take a deep breath and lighten up a bit.

Right-on!  There's a couple of folks who seem to find fault with just about
everything that RightBrain does.  What's wrong with a little surprise fun in an
app?  If you don't agree with the price, don't buy it.

And Jeff's recent complaint about sexist ads seems pretty weak also.  I really
don't find a woman with a green right eye and brown left eye holding a French
horn in Chromagrafx' PixelMaster ad in NeXTWORLD to be a particularly sexist
ad.  Maybe Chromagrafx was just demonstrating how PixelMaster could change eye
colorings :-)
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515
Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1871
Author: andrew
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:09
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In article <93Jan11.174733.23721@acs.ucalgary.ca> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.035553.24510@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
>>panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
>>Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
>>the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
>>shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
>>every window on the screen to float around wildly.
>>
>
>I was nosing around the app wrapper and found the 3 eps files
>that did this little magic. I hadn't seen the effect yet and
>wondered why they were there. 

Yeah, they used to be called Dock_Hack1.eps and other equally
suspicious names until Glenn changed them....


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com      | "We cannot dwell in the time that is to come,
Andrew Loewenstern       |  lest we lose our now for a phantom of our
Cube Technologies, Inc.  |  own design." - Erendis
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Re: PasteUp Trick!
#1872
Author: Alex Honor
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:41
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In article <93Jan11.174733.23721@acs.ucalgary.ca> kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.035553.24510@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
>>Well, I thought I would try something.  I brought up the INFO
>>panel in PasteUp (v1.1 edit 7) and held down the Alternate
>>Key while clicking on various parts of the INFO panel with 
>>the mouse.  WOW!  To my amazement, the application dock had
>>shifted to the bottom of the screen.  More clicking prompted
>>every window on the screen to float around wildly.
>>
>
>I was nosing around the app wrapper and found the 3 eps files
>that did this little magic. I hadn't seen the effect yet and
>wondered why they were there. 
>
>Kelly
>
>
>
After reading this I, of course, had to try the alt key for
myself. When I brought up the Info Panel and held down
the alt key and selected the upper right hand quadrant with
the mouse everything on the screen except the dock slowly
melted. Pretty cool.
/alex
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