levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (08/04/89)
In article <3341@internal.Apple.COM> dowdy@apple.com (Tom Dowdy) writes: | |Another approach that people might consider that I feel would be superior |to saving the print record away in your application (Which causes trouble |on read only volumes), would be to implement stationary pads. To my mind, this is the one single item from the Lisa user interface that was not retained in the Macintosh that should have remained part of the standard. Some software packages are independently re-implementing stationery. I'm a little surprised it took so long. = UUCP: levin@bbn.com (new) or {backbone}!bbn!levin (old) INTERNET: levin@bbn.com POTS: (617) 873-3463 "The night was"
ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel) (08/06/89)
In article <43796@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes: >In article <3341@internal.Apple.COM> dowdy@apple.com (Tom Dowdy) writes: >| >|Another approach that people might consider that I feel would be superior >|to saving the print record away in your application (Which causes trouble >|on read only volumes), would be to implement stationary pads. > >To my mind, this is the one single item from the Lisa user interface >that was not retained in the Macintosh that should have remained part >of the standard. > >Some software packages are independently re-implementing stationery. Finder 7.0 will apparently include some kind of standard interface for applications to create stationery. I've heard this mentioned several times, but with no more detail. Can anyone from Apple, or someone who was at the Developer's Conference, provide some more information? My mailer is fascist Grrrrr.... eric ------ These opinions are MINE, ALL MINE!!!