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In article <11222@apple.Apple.Com> jrg@apple.UUCP (John R. Galloway) writes:
>In article <10700005@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes:
>>> The idea of positioning the dialog box under the present position of the
>>> mouse is worth a try.
>>
>>Yes, it sounds like a good idea, but what do you do if the mouse is over on
>>the edge of the screen, such that the dialog box would be mostly off-screen
>>
     There is a very nice INIT/CDEV for the Macintosh called Front & Center
which was written by Pete Helme. It centers dialogs around the current mouse
position. When the mouse is near the edge of the screen it places the dialog
as close to the edge as possible but with the whole dialog showing. It works
very well, especially with very large screens. The only down side I've seen
is that if you use two screens only the main screen is used. The whole effect
does surprise guest users of my machines...they don't expect common dialogs
to appear where they sometimes do. 

David Gelphman     
Adobe Systems, Inc.