takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Takahashi) (06/10/91)
In what order do applications in 'startup item' folder run in system 7? I got 'FinderToFront' from sumex, and placed in the startup item folder. Its file name has ~ for the first character so I thought it would run at the last. But it didn't ! I have also applicon, trash chute, darkside(trigo), alarm clock placed in the startup item folder. Applicon placed the tiles in the following order. applicon, finder, (trash chute, ~FinderToFront)*, darkside(trigo) alias, alarm clock alias (* they exits soon, so It may be vice versa) The same question goes to the running order of system extensions. Showing order of startup icons suggests that it is not alphabetic order. In system 6, it was an alphabetic order. Any idea? Thanks in advance. Toshiyuki Takahashi e-mail: takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu CIS Graduate Student University of Pennsylvania
jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) (06/12/91)
takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Takahashi) writes: >In what order do applications in 'startup item' folder run in system 7? Alphabetically?? >I got 'FinderToFront' from sumex, and placed in the startup item folder. Its >file name has ~ for the first character so I thought it would run at the >last. But it didn't ! > I have also applicon, trash chute, darkside(trigo), alarm clock placed in >the startup item folder. Applicon placed the tiles in the following order. > applicon, finder, (trash chute, ~FinderToFront)*, darkside(trigo) alias, >alarm clock alias (* they exits soon, so It may be vice versa) >The same question goes to the running order of system extensions. Showing >order of startup icons suggests that it is not alphabetic order. In system 6, >it was an alphabetic order. In this case, I think Sys 7 does something like System Folder -> Extension Folder -> Control Panels. That might explain the appearent non-alphabetic order. >Any idea? Thanks in advance. I only put aliases in the Startup Folder, and prefix them with a "line number". >Toshiyuki Takahashi e-mail: takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu >CIS Graduate Student University of Pennsylvania -- /| / Jan B. Andersen /^^^\ .----------------. / | / RUC, Hus 19,1 jba@dat.ruc.dk { o_o } | SIMULA does it | /--|/ Postbox 260 DG-passer@ruc.dk \ o / --> | with CLASS | `--' ' DK-4000 Roskilde Postmaster@ruc.dk --mm---mm-- `----------------'