yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) (05/21/91)
I just installed System 7.0 from 800K disks last night. Whoopee! Here are some of my impressions from serveral hours of use/play: 1. Ballon Help gets old real quick. I wish there was a way to turn it off (i.e. get rid of the icon in the menubar). I want room for a clock. 2. My first surprise was when I open a DA suitcase, and dragged the DA out. It MOVED the DA instead of COPYING it! It was then that I remember to hold the Option key down to copy, but it was too late because I already removed it as an application. I haven't try putting the DA back into the Suitcase, yet. Does this work? 3. Then I tried to install my bitmap fonts into the System File by dragging the Font Suitcases into the System File. It started to MOVE the fonts, instead of COPYING them!!!! "Oh, no! Not again!", I said to myself. Apple, if you are listening, I want to copy them instead of moving them. Reason being that I want to keep the font suitcase for use with 6.0. I expected at least a dialog to give me the option of copying or moving, or a warning in the release notes. I tried to stop the operation by pressing the "Stop' button in the Move/Copy dialog, but it only left me with a corrupted Font Suitcase! Is there any way to alias Fonts? 4. OK, now that I've gotten through the steep and most painful part of the System 7.0 learning curve. I was glad to see that most of my favorite INITs still worked (well, sort of): After Dark 2.0t - very slow (put the After Dark files in the control panel. PopChar 1.2 - works (PopChar 1.3 seems to kill Type Reunion) Type Reunion - works OpenWide 2.2 - works SuperClock 3.9 - works (but looks terrible next to the ballon help) Disinfectant Init 2.4 - works 5. INITs that didn't work. OnCue 1.3 - didn't work. Menus would post, but applications would not launch. FileSaver - Compatibility Stack said that it was incompatible, so I didn't even try it. 6. Now that I have a reasonable System 7.0 setup, I can say I really like: o Disk stats on Finder windows o Command-arrowkeys to traverse in Finder o Aliases o Pasteing the Map PICT from the Scrapbook into the Map Control Panel was "way cool!" o "Hide" feature in Finder o "Find" feature in Finder o New selection of icon name for typing (much cleaner than 6.0) o Others features that I am sure to find in the future Summary: My installation of System 7.0 was a good experience, except for the problem of MOVING DAs and Fonts from their Suitcases when I expected a COPY, and a incredibly slow running After Dark. Thanks to Mark Johnson for making System 7.0 FTP'able. =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee <yee@osf.org> -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == "Live simply, so that others may simply live."
keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) (05/22/91)
In article <YEE.91May21114552@pmin27.osf.org> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > 1. Ballon Help gets old real quick. I wish there was a way to turn > it off (i.e. get rid of the icon in the menubar). I want room > for a clock. There's nothing that says you can't run a menuclock under 7.0. As a matter of fact, menuclocks make things nicer for those of us who eschew balloon help. My menuclock INIT draws itself over the balloon help menu item, hiding it completely. I never use balloon help, and I never have to see it! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. INTERNET: keith@apple.com UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith "But where the senses fail us, reason must step in." - Galileo
pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (05/23/91)
In article <53173@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: >There's nothing that says you can't run a menuclock under 7.0. As >a matter of fact, menuclocks make things nicer for those of us who >eschew balloon help. My menuclock INIT draws itself over the balloon >help menu item, hiding it completely. I never use balloon help, and >I never have to see it! I found it kind of neat that SuperClock 3.9 makes space for the Balloon Help icon. It's interesting to watch it dance back and forth, leaving room for the Application and Help icons while in the Finder or an app, moving over to the right while an application launches (the App and Help icons disappear briefly), then dancing back to the left to make room for them again. Neato! -- | Paul E. Jacoby, 3M Company, 3M Center, 235-3F-27 | | Maplewood, MN 55144-1000 .-----------------------------------| | => pejacoby@3m.com | I am _not_ the editor of | | (612) 737-3211 | the Radio Times. |
jwwalker@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Jim Walker) (05/23/91)
In article <YEE.91May21114552@pmin27.osf.org> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > 4. OK, now that I've gotten through the steep and most painful part > of the System 7.0 learning curve. I was glad to see that most of > my favorite INITs still worked (well, sort of): [stuff deleted] > OpenWide 2.2 - works [more stuff deleted] > > =Mike >-- >== Michael K. Yee <yee@osf.org> -+- OSF/Motif Team >== Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 >== "Live simply, so that others may simply live." Thanks for the plug, but saying that Open-wide 2.2 works under System 7 is, ah, an oversimplification. First of all, in the Open-wide control panel, if you click "Find an Application" or "Find Any File" in the exclusion dialog, you get a crash. Second, under some circumstances, and depending upon the Open-wide settings, some dialog items may be mis-positioned, e.g., overlapping or invisible. I am working on version 2.3, which I hope to release within a couple of weeks. -- -- Jim Walker 76367.2271@compuserve.com walker@math.scarolina.edu