vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (01/07/86)
While experimenting with HFS this weekend, I noticed a bug in Finder 5.1 and found a pleasant surprise in ResEdit. The bug: I tossed a folder in the trash. No complaint. I selected "Empty Trash." The finder responded "Unable to empty trash." Even so, the trash appeared empty and nothing from the trash reappeared on the desktop. I eventually figured out that one of the files in the trashed folder was in use, which is why it couldn't be trashed. Closing and re-opening the disk window caused the folder containing the file to reappear in the disk window. The pleasant surprise: ResEdit doesn't use the GetFile dialog to open folders, it just presents a list of files. So, I wasn't sure what to expect when I ran it with an HFS volume mounted. Surprise! For HFS volumes, the list of files includes folders and shows the small icon next to every file/folder name. -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay
jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) (01/10/86)
In article <1520@wanginst.UUCP>, vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) writes: > While experimenting with HFS this weekend, I noticed a bug in Finder 5.1 and > found a pleasant surprise in ResEdit. > > The pleasant surprise: ResEdit doesn't use the GetFile dialog to open folders, > it just presents a list of files. So, I wasn't sure what to expect when I ran > it with an HFS volume mounted. Surprise! For HFS volumes, the list of files > includes folders and shows the small icon next to every file/folder name. This also works on ResEdit 1.0 (still floating around in pre-release to certified developers--don't ask me for one), but it's reassuring to know they were ahead of the game on this one.
briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm) (01/15/86)
>This also works on ResEdit 1.0 (still floating around in pre-release >to certified developers--don't ask me for one), but it's reassuring >to know they were ahead of the game on this one. So I'm NOT asking, but could someone surreptitiously sort of make sure this gets posted to the (non-existent) net.sources.mac? -Brian Diehm Tektronix, Inc. P.S. - I just KNOW the implications of what I suggest are sure to cause the collapse of our entire civilization, so sue me! And also consider this a disclaimer - Tektronix doesn't know whereof I speak!
mlr0@bunny.UUCP (Martin Resnick) (01/17/86)
> >This also works on ResEdit 1.0 (still floating around in pre-release > >to certified developers--don't ask me for one), but it's reassuring > >to know they were ahead of the game on this one. > > So I'm NOT asking, but could someone surreptitiously sort of make sure this > gets posted to the (non-existent) net.sources.mac? > ResEdit v 1.0d4 is part of the December Software Supplement available from Apple for $25. Also, the Addison-Wesley version of Inside Macintosh should be at your local bookstores now. It is available as three soft cover volumes or as one hard cover bound volume. Pricing: Vol I $24.95; Vol II $24.95; Vol III $19.95; Hard cover $79.95