[comp.sys.mac] Minor Finder Bug

kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (09/19/88)

Like to see a minor System 6.0 Finder bug?  Open a window.  Shrink it 
so it needs to scroll vertically in both View by Icon and View by Name.  
Scroll to the top in View by Icon, select View by Name and scroll to 
the bottom, select View by Icon again.  Look at the thumb at the 
bottom, but try to scroll up.  You can't because you are already at the 
top, but the thumb is at the bottom.

Kent Borg
kent@lloyd.uucp
or
hscfvax!lloyd!kent

steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele) (09/20/88)

kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes:
>Like to see a minor System 6.0 Finder bug?  Open a window.  Shrink it 
>so it needs to scroll vertically in both View by Icon and View by Name.  
>Scroll to the top in View by Icon, select View by Name and scroll to 
>the bottom, select View by Icon again.  Look at the thumb at the 
>bottom, but try to scroll up.  You can't because you are already at the 
>top, but the thumb is at the bottom.

Pretty neat.  Actually, you can use the down arrow (this resets the
thumb), but I don't think that excuses it.

Now, has anybody tried naming a disk "^0" and choosing "Erase Disk"?
This has been there from day one; send it off to MacWhatchamacallit
and get $25 dollars.  I'll never get around to it.

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thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) (09/20/88)

In article <199@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) writes:
>Like to see a minor System 6.0 Finder bug?  Open a window.  Shrink it 
>so it needs to scroll vertically in both View by Icon and View by Name.  
>Scroll to the top in View by Icon, select View by Name and scroll to 
>the bottom, select View by Icon again.  Look at the thumb at the 
>bottom, but try to scroll up.  You can't because you are already at the 
>top, but the thumb is at the bottom.

  Another related problem was that the scroll bar would always be drawn
highlighted (with the thumb at the bottom) in a 'View by Name' window,
even if all files fit well within the bounds of the window!

  This has been fixed in the System 6.0.1 release (although I don't
know about 6.0.2 :-) ), and appeared to be only a "cosmetic" bug.

-ken

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tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) (09/21/88)

>Now, has anybody tried naming a disk "^0" and choosing "Erase Disk"?
>This has been there from day one; send it off to MacWhatchamacallit
>and get $25 dollars.  I'll never get around to it.

Those clowns (MacWorld/User)
only publish useless bugs, and Word bugs.
I sent them 3 or 4 REALLY JUICY bugs and undocumented
features, (which I can't remember offhand  :-), but
they never replied or published them.

-Ted