info-mac@uw-beaver (01/25/85)
From: beatie%ucbcory@UCB-VAX (Robert Breckinridge Beatie) I'm just one of those thousands of Mac owners who likes to have lots of fonts in my FONT menu when I use MacWrite or MacPaint or whatever else that uses fonts. My font collection has become enormous so I decided to separate the system stuff from the application/data stuff. I have three SYSTEM DISKS which I boot that contain as many fonts as I could squeeze in. Then I put MacWrite/MacPaint in the external drive and go about the font problem that way. Of course, this solution has its drawbacks. I have to swap the application disk and data disk a lot just to load or save a document. All this for a full font menu? Yuck. Then I thought it would be nice to be able to change SYSTEM disks with different sets of fonts in mid-application via some sort of desk accessory which could close all of the resource files and then reopen them under a different SYSTEM disk. This sounded great until I looked through the Resource Manager documentation. There seems to be no way to find out exactly WHAT resource files are open at any given time. So I decided to look through the File Manager doc. That looks too hairy. If anyone has any insight into resource file manouvers, please, please, please let me know or write this wonderful desk accessory to switch system disks mid-application and send it to me. Ha. Thanks. - Ted Cohn - cohn@ucbugs University of California, Berkeley