gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) (06/09/89)
After installing Rebound, and playing around with it, I think I've
fingured out what it is supposed to do. One of the strengths of the
Open file dialog is the ability to access the list randomly by letter.
You know--typing 'sy' to get to the system file in the list...
Well, it was long a pain for me that I couldn't do this in the Save
as... dialog for obvious reasons [if you typed a letter, you typed
into the filename field. Well, Rebound seems to allow this sort of
thing. The idea is to open the dialog with the option key down i.e.
select the Save As... menu item with the option key down before the
mouseDown. This opens the dialog normally. Type the new name for the
file into the filename field. Now, if you go to another folder, the
text field is hidden (but the name you typed in is retained), and
you're all set...
My complaint is that there is no way of changing the name in the field
once you change folders, nor can you see the name (I have a short
memory). If these two problems were corrected (maybe one could hit
CMD-O to oepn the field again) and a static edit item to hide the
fielename instead of making it invisible.
I hope the author is reading this... PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION!!!
Norman R. Gall
--
York University Department of Philosophy Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you
can solve their problems." -- L. Wittgenstein
_____________________________________________________________________________eynon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Barry Eynon) (06/10/89)
[ munch ] Here are the author's notes when Rebound was originally posted (on Compuserve, I think): Rebound 0.9 I got tired of waiting for Andy Hertzfeld to write a reentrant version of SFScrollINIT, so I wrote Rebound. Not only is Rebound reentrant, but it also highlights the last opened file or folder for each directory. In addition, holding command-shift when changing directories bypasses Rebound. Holding command-shift while typing a letter in the SFPut (Save) dialog, will scroll you like in SFGet (Open). This is version 0.9 cause I'll probably add a few features someday. Freeware ) 1989 IMI SoftWare, by Fred D. Reed. ___ I believe the latest version of Rebound is 0.95 Hope this helps. Barry Eynon eynon@lindy.stanford.edu