reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew Reynhout) (06/11/91)
Since the switch to sys7, everytime I launch a DA, the current path is changed to the Apple Menu Items folder. This is most noticeable in DAs like sigmaEdit (a text editor) that open a SFdialog when they launch. Minor annoyance, I know. I assume that Apple wanted to keep launching DAs consistent with launching applications, rather than consistent with users' expectations... Or is it just a quirk of my arrangement? -- <reynhout@cs.uri.edu>
jmatthews@desire.wright.edu (06/12/91)
In article <1991Jun11.144202.9164@cs.uri.edu>, reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew Reynhout) writes: > Since the switch to sys7, everytime I launch a DA, the current path is > changed to the Apple Menu Items folder. This is most noticeable in DAs like > sigmaEdit (a text editor) that open a SFdialog when they launch. I've noticed this too. Very annoying with one's favorite DA text editor and terminal program. A QuicKeys2 Sequence works well to fix this: first a menu QuicKey to bring up the DA then a Location (Extension) QuicKey to set the Standard File location. Viola, DA opens with Standard File pointing to the folder of choice. I wish there was a cheaper alternative. o----------------------------------------------------------------------------o | John B. Matthews, jmatthews@desire.wright.edu, am103@cleveland.freenet.edu | | "Now why would Mike Wallace be standing around on MY porch with a TV crew?"| o----------------------------------------------------------------------------o
scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine) (06/18/91)
In article <1991Jun11.231121.3918@desire.wright.edu> jmatthews@desire.wright.edu writes: >In article <1991Jun11.144202.9164@cs.uri.edu>, reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew Reynhout) writes: >> Since the switch to sys7, everytime I launch a DA, the current path is >> changed to the Apple Menu Items folder. This is most noticeable in DAs like >> sigmaEdit (a text editor) that open a SFdialog when they launch. > >I've noticed this too. Very annoying with one's favorite DA text editor and >terminal program. A QuicKeys2 Sequence works well to fix this: first a menu >QuicKey to bring up the DA then a Location (Extension) QuicKey to set the >Standard File location. Viola, DA opens with Standard File pointing to the >folder of choice. I wish there was a cheaper alternative. How aobut this: Put your DA in your folder of choice, and put an alias of it in the Apple Menu Items Folder. -- scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Stuart M Castergine "Step by step they were led to practices which disposed to vice -- the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but part of their servitude."