wrs@cmu-cs-wb1.ARPA (Walter Smith) (12/08/85)
As long as we're temporarily on the subject...
Bug 1: Double-click on a folder to open it. Make sure the folder's window
covers the original folder's icon. Now move the cursor to the place
on the screen where the folder's name is (it's not visible, of
course). The cursor changes to an I-Beam.
Bug 2: Make a disk name that ends in a space. Now select and
deselect it in various ways and notice how the text centering
alternately ignores and recognizes the space. This can produce
ridiculously inconsistent displays if the name is partially covered
by a window when it changes state. This is especially apparent
to users of Assimilation Process's Mac Memory Disk, which calls
itself "RamDisk ".
Bug 3: Change the case of the first letter of a file (e.g. change "System"
to "system". Cover the icon (put another window on top or close the
window it's in), then uncover it. The name is not changed.
None of these are life-threatening, but #3 is often really annoying.
Do they still occur in 5.0?
- Walt
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Walter Smith, CS undergraduate, Carnegie-Mellon University
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usps: 5141 Forbes Ave.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler) (12/08/85)
>Bug 1: Double-click on a folder to open it. Make sure the folder's window > covers the original folder's icon. Now move the cursor to the place > on the screen where the folder's name is (it's not visible, of > course). The cursor changes to an I-Beam. Fixed in Finder 5.0. >Bug 3: Change the case of the first letter of a file (e.g. change "System" > to "system". Cover the icon (put another window on top or close the > window it's in), then uncover it. The name is not changed. Fixed in Finder 5.0. I was happy to see that these two were fixed; they always annoyed me to no end (especially #3). However, I am leary of Finder 5.0. It seems that the careful tuning of disk swapping was undone with Finder 5.0. It works fine when it is on a hard disk (always mounted), but when running it off a floppy, I have often had to swap disks when I inserted a new disk! I haven't done that since Finder 1.0! (or was it 1.1g?) -- Darin Adler {gatech,harvard,ihnp4,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-dillo!darin