stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) (06/05/91)
I can do soooo much with the keyboard now in System 7.. but I can't switch Applications from the keyboard.. this is a queue for a neat hack that would let users rotate through the open applications.. or (GASP!!) like Windows (who said that :-)) or AHHH.. OS/2 (ooooh) where you can bring up a task list and select from a list of currently open applications. Apple tries sooo hard to be modeless and yet the only way to switch to a particular app is a modal operation of selecting from a menu! Cheers. Stu. -- stui@avalon.uucp stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com
alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg) (06/06/91)
In article <1CE00001.hdt2v9@avalon.caladan.wa.com>, stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes: > > I can do soooo much with the keyboard now in System 7.. but I can't > switch Applications from the keyboard.. this is a queue for a neat > hack that would let users rotate through the open applications.. or > (GASP!!) like Windows (who said that :-)) or AHHH.. OS/2 (ooooh) where > you can bring up a task list and select from a list of currently open > applications. > I wrote such a doohickum yesterday morning. QuicKeys 2.1 will do this, but it works in "process order." "Process order" is a system-defined arbitrary order. Mine works in front-to-back order and can rotate in both directions. The problem: it only works because I know about all sorts of undocumented stuff that will probably go away one day. The solution: I'm meditating on the pros and cons of giving it away, versus making it better at MacHack. Stay tuned. > Apple tries sooo hard to be modeless and yet the only way to switch > to a particular app is a modal operation of selecting from a menu! > I agree. I did my hack based on a suggestion that Switcher did keyboard application switching, which some people around here missed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Alexander M. Rosenberg - INTERNET: alexr@apple.com - Yoyodyne - - 330 1/2 Waverley St. - UUCP:ucbvax!apple!alexr - Propulsion - - Palo Alto, CA 94301 - - Systems - - (415) 329-8463 - Nobody is my employer so - :-) - - (408) 974-3110 - nobody cares what I say. - -