6029334@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Robert G. Trevor) (06/30/88)
In article <52653@ti-csl.CSNET>, martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) writes: >Also, here is a strange trick. Turn CloseView on. Go into the >Control Panel and open the MAP cdev. Now turn CloseView off (with the >keystroke, not the Control Panel). You will notice that you now have >a zoomed in view of the map that stays zoomed as you look around. Is >that documented or just a bizarre (and useful) bug? > >Steve Martin USENET: {ctvax,im4u,texsun,rice}!ti-csl!martin > GENIE: S.MARTIN8 PHONE: (214)-995-5919, 404-1061 Not a bug, just a back door...try opening the Map CDev with the option key held down and/or hitting the find button with the option key held down. The first gives you the zoomed display, the second scrolls through the cities that are currently defined (you can, of course, define your own). If you like back doors, try cmd-I in SCSI SetUp; it allows you to change the interleaf factor on your (Apple) drive. Needless to say, *don't* do this on an unbacked-up drive! Rob Trevor MaBell: (609) 452-4051 Bitnet: 6029334@PUCC UseNet: 6029334@PUCC.Princeton.Edu
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (07/01/88)
>In article <52653@ti-csl.CSNET>, martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) writes: >...try opening the Map CDev with the option >key held down and/or hitting the find button with the option key held >down. The first gives you the zoomed display, the second scrolls >through the cities that are currently defined (you can, of course, >define your own). Another option on the Map cdev is that you can open it with the shift and option keys held down to get a closer view! Is there a way to find the closest city to a mouse click? I never can click in the exact pixel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sky clenched, a mountain of mud convulsed, earth and sky bellowed at each other, there was a horrible pinkness, a sudden greenness, a lingering orangeness that strained the clouds, and then the light sank and the night at last was deeply, hideously dark. --- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (07/01/88)
I suspect the algorithm for calculating the time-zone is too simplistic as it doesn't coincide with reality; I suspect that it's simply assuming that every 15 degrees longitude the next time-zone starts ... for example, if you select Paris, you find that the time zone is correctly indicated as +1 hour to GMT, but if you click just next to it, you find that anywhere to 7'30" you get GMT, and at 7'31" you get +1 hour ... does anyone know a way to exchange and import data into the MAP? I'd like to educate the country about Texas.... (-:
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (07/01/88)
In article <2835@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: > >I suspect the algorithm for calculating the time-zone is too simplistic >as it doesn't coincide with reality; I suspect that it's simply assuming that >every 15 degrees longitude the next time-zone starts ... > ... >does anyone know a way to exchange and import data into the MAP? I'd like to >educate the country about Texas.... (-: I agree! The time zone data had Dallas in the Eastern time zone when in reality parts of Florida are west enough to be in the central time zone (I always told people Dallas was not IN Texas :)) Houston (the 7th largest metro area) didnt even rate inclusion! BTW there should be a zoom button/bar in the cdev to control the map scale instead of the option-open trick. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sky clenched, a mountain of mud convulsed, earth and sky bellowed at each other, there was a horrible pinkness, a sudden greenness, a lingering orangeness that strained the clouds, and then the light sank and the night at last was deeply, hideously dark. --- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
buzz@kinetics.UUCP (Mahboud Zabetian) (07/02/88)
Also, you may want to try clover-shift, or clover-option-shift. It magnifies the pixels on the Map.
wrs@Apple.COM (Walter Smith) (07/02/88)
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >...martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) writes: >>...try opening the Map CDev with the option key held down... >>[to get a zoomed-in view of the map] > >Another option on the Map cdev is that you can open it with the shift and >option keys held down to get a closer view! Well, just to be complete, open Map with shift, option, and command down. You get the extra-close view of a shift-option open combined with big blinking squares in place of the little blinking pixels. You still have to click in the exact center of a square to hit a city, though. I'm not sure if this is a *feature*, but it certainly is a *behavior*. - Walt -- Walter Smith Apple Computer wrs@apple.com, ..!sun!apple!wrs Special Projects (408) 973-5892 Disclaimer: Anyone who thinks I might be representing Apple Computer, Inc. in any official capacity on Usenet, of all places, has a serious attitude problem.
brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu (07/02/88)
After brief experimentation, I have found that these keys do something
if you hold them down when you open the Map cdev.
Shift : first level of magnification
Option : second level of magnification
Shift-Option : highest level of maginification
Command : with any of the above, cities are magnified to about 4 by 4
pixels wide. Apparently (I'm not sure) it doesn't magnify the place you click
on, i.e. Its still hard to click them.
Is any of this stuff documented? Does someone have the docs for System
6.0, and do they say anything useful about Map or anything else that would be
helpful to us poor people who can't afford $50 bucks for a slick manual?
(Did anyone else notice the guy's name appears when you click on the
version number? Or the smiley face that appears when you click on the monitors
version number? Or the smiley :) that appears when you click on the Mac in the
SCSI Tools cdev?)
Robert Brewer
brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu
{ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!brewerthecloud@pnet06.cts.com (Ken Mcleod) (07/02/88)
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes: >Is there a way to find the closest city to a mouse click? I never can click >in the exact pixel. [oops-- we're talking about the Map cdev here, of course] You don't need to "hunt and click" for cities. Just click and hold the mouse button down. If you're not already on a "city pixel," just move the pointer around (with the mouse button held down) until you hit one. Its name will be displayed in the editText box. Ken McLeod ========================= ....... ====================== UUCP: {crash uunet}!pnet06!thecloud :. .: Chief Weapons of UNIX: ARPA: crash!pnet06!thecloud@nosc.mil :::.. ..::: "Fear, surprise, and INET: thecloud@pnet06.cts.com //// ruthless efficiency."
mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON) (07/04/88)
In article <2835@utastro.UUCP>, werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: > > does anyone know a way to exchange and import data into the MAP? I'd like to > educate the country about Texas.... (-: The manual gives full details on adding and modifying data in the map. The only bit that seems silly is that to change information on an entry you have to "remove" it (the data remains present on the screen) and THEN edit the contents and "add" it back in to the database. The manual also acknowledges that the timezone calculated from longitude is only a guess and that real world modification may well be necessary. Don't kvetch. They don't even bother to list Omaha -- why should they care about Texas? :-) -- Michael L. Siemon contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories ihnp4!mhuxu!mls standard disclaimer
ted@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ted Jardine) (07/06/88)
In article <3449@whutt.UUCP>, mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON) writes: > > ... does anyone know a way to exchange and import data into the MAP? I'd > > like to educate the country about Texas.... (-: > > The manual gives full details on adding and modifying data in the map. ... > Michael L. Siemon Anyone have a clue as to how one gets a 'manual' for System 6.0? Not only did my very friendly dealer permit me to copy the four disks onto my own set, he indicated that no documentation was available. Is this true? Or is there a different path for documentation. I've had very good success with 6.0 on my Mac II - only had to throw away a couple of games and one or two DAs, plus removing Quickergraf. -- TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper aka Ted Jardine CFI-ASME/I Usenet: ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ted Internet: ted@boeing.com
tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) (07/11/88)
In article <17000113@clio> brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes: > (Did anyone else notice the guy's name appears when you click on the >version number? Or the smiley face that appears when you click on the monitors >version number? Or the smiley :) that appears when you click on the Mac in the >SCSI Tools cdev?) Yes, but then again, I know all these people. :-) _emt
melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ofer Melnik) (07/14/88)
Here's something: Try holding Command & Option while you pick "About Multi-Finder" Cute, eh? [----------------------------------------+----------------------------------] [Ofer Melnik -- Rutgers University ! "If its not in the computer, ] [ melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu ! it doesn't exist." ] [----------------------------------------+----------------------------------]
prw@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul R. Wenker) (07/15/88)
In article <Jul.13.19.53.47.1988.7562@topaz.rutgers.edu> melnik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ofer Melnik) writes: > >Here's something: > >Try holding Command & Option while you pick "About Multi-Finder" The release version of MultiFinder has several things editted out. Does anybody have the original text from some of the pre-release versions? -Paul Wenker prw@meccsd -MECC, Technical Services