peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (03/28/88)
in article <7785@apple.Apple.Com>, goldman@Apple.COM (Phil Goldman) says: > > System software (including MF) > is released every 6 months so it is always possible to add/change features. > > -Phil Goldman > Apple Computer There are at least two things I'd like added to Multi-Finder. One of them should be easy. The ApplicationMenu INIT that was posted by Apple a while ago os excellent and seems to me would be reasonable to make a standard part of MF (afterall, Apple did develop it, presumably because some there thought it was useful). The other thing I'd like to see is a way to "hide" windows easily so that icons on the desktop could be more easily accessed (without having to resize and/or move windows). A logical approach would be perhaps to extend the AppicationMenu to list both applications and windows. To hide a window one would simply have to select it from this menu (where it would then be checked or something to indicate its special status). It would be nice if ApplicationMenu also listed currently open DAs... -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) (03/30/88)
In article <1021@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes: >of them should be easy. The ApplicationMenu INIT that was posted by >Apple a while ago os excellent and seems to me would be reasonable >to make a standard part of MF (afterall, Apple did develop it, >presumably because some there thought it was useful). The other thing "Apple" did not write or post ApplicationMenu. I did it for my own use and enjoyment. (It is just a coincidence that I work for Apple.) Also, the INIT file MF Menu came first; I simply added a couple of features to the basic idea. -- Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 27-AJ Cupertino, CA 95014 AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau) (04/05/88)
In article <7809@apple.Apple.Com>, lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes: > In article <1021@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes: > > "Apple" did not write or post ApplicationMenu. I did it for my own use and > enjoyment. (It is just a coincidence that I work for Apple.) Also, the > INIT file MF Menu came first; I simply added a couple of features to the > basic idea. > > -- > Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist Well.......MF Menu crashes too often. ApplMenu never crashed. MF Menu caused me to lost about 50 lines of entry into an Excel spreadsheet. (It crashed when I tried to select the Save... commmand, so don't tell me to save often!) MF Menu also caused strange behavior w/some utilities. ApplMenu doesn't. So they may have the idea first but you have the working thing..... -Ray (signature surpressed to avoid turning a short msg. into a lengthy book.)
t-jacobs@utah-cs.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) (04/08/88)
ApplMenu has one problem, when you hold down the command key you can click anywhere in the menu to access it. This is a conflict with Hypercard! You cannot access the protection mechanisms because you need to hold down the command key to do it!!! I would like to see an addition to ApplMenu that allows you to quit programs without having to go to them first. Something like holding down the shift key when selecting the application from the ApplMenu. The reasons for this are that often I have to go quit an application in order to open up another one. When you quit an application it will then go to some other application in the list. If this happens to be one with a complex window it has to draw it may take a lone time to update it and thus it slow down the process of opening up the new application. Perhaps adding the ability to quit from the ApplMenu won't take you back to the Finder or where ever you were last but it would help if it did. -- Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu