danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell) (06/17/91)
Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet? If so, what are your comments? The reason I ask is because I have two aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches second. Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program? Thanks. Danny
bitting-douglas@cs.yale.edu (Douglas Bitting) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun17.124955.6093@cs.utk.edu> danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell) writes: >Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet? >If so, what are your comments? The reason I ask is because I have two >aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I >order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches >second. Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program? >Thanks. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that aliases launch after apps. So, if ~FinderToFront is an app in your startup items folder, it will not launch last unless all the items in your startup folder are apps. So, simply make the ~FinderToFront in your startup iems folder an alias to it somewhere else. This should make it launch last and do its job correctly. >Danny --Doug -- Doug Bitting | "And we know that in all things God works PO Box 3043 Yale Station | for the good of those who love him..." New Haven, CT 06520 | --Romans 8:28 bitting@cs.yale.edu +------------------------------------------
hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover) (06/18/91)
From article <1991Jun17.124955.6093@cs.utk.edu>, by danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell): > Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet? > If so, what are your comments? The reason I ask is because I have two > aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I > order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches > second. Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program? > Thanks. > > Danny I had the exact same problem. It seems that the names in italics (for aliases) all happen after anything in regular type. I cured this in a not too elegant fashion by making an aliases of the FinderToFront program (I put the original somewhere else) now the FinderToFront name (with a ~ in front is how mine came) is also in Italics and will execute last like it was supposed to. I don't have any non-aliases in the startup folder, but they should all start first with no problem. It would make the program more usefull if it took aliases into account, though. Hope this helps, Bruce Hoover
jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (06/19/91)
In article <1629@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover) writes: >From article <1991Jun17.124955.6093@cs.utk.edu>, by danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell): >> Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet? >> If so, what are your comments? The reason I ask is because I have two >> aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I >> order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches >> second. Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program? >> Thanks. >> >> Danny > > >I had the exact same problem. > >It seems that the names in italics (for aliases) all happen after >anything in regular type. > >I cured this in a not too elegant fashion by making an aliases of the >FinderToFront program (I put the original somewhere else) now the >FinderToFront name (with a ~ in front is how mine came) is also in >Italics and will execute last like it was supposed to. > >I don't have any non-aliases in the startup folder, but they should all >start first with no problem. > >It would make the program more usefull if it took aliases into account, >though. > >Hope this helps, > >Bruce Hoover I don'thave an elaborate setup (MacEyes and an alias of Versaterm) in my startup folder, but when I dropped FTF in, it worked fine. And that's with one alias and one real app. Why is mine working correctly? jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California