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From: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit1.3d1
Keywords: ResEdit, CDEF, Bugs
Message-ID: <239@6sigma.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 89 19:39:51 GMT
References: <2801@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Reply-To: blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: 6 Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <2801@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen) writes:
|One for whoever maintains ResEdit.

While we're talking about ResEdit, I have a question for everybody.  How
many think ResEdit should just use SF{PutFile, GetFile} like everybody
else?

I do, and here's why:

1.  About the only time I want to see all of the files available are when
I'm going to actually work with one, and then SFGetFile shows them to me.
If I need to see a list of all files, I can use DiskTop (or any of the
other DAs of the same type), which shows me more information, and lets me
do more with the files than ResEdit anyways.  And in the worst case, I
can always do an open, look at the list of files, and then cancel the
open.

2.  With a number of volumes, a lot of real-estate is taken by windows,
which then must be activated/deactivated and updated whenever they are
uncovered or covered.  This wastes a lot of space and time to show me
information I don't even want.  This is particularly annoying when
flipping back and forth between ResEdit and another application under
MultiFinder.

3.  SFVolInit, SFScrollInit, Boomerang and other INITs that make
additions to the Standard File dialogs can't be used in ResEdit.  This
means that ResEdit's windows actually make it more difficult to find
something, because I have to open all of the folders from the volume down
to the one I actually want (each taking more space and time), and then
look for the file I want, instead of just selecting it from Boomerang's
menu.

Any comments?
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Brian L. Matthews	Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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