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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Window closer for Multifinder
Keywords: Multifinder
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Date: 1 Aug 89 15:38:54 GMT
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In article <199@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ziff@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Brian Moore) writes:
>
>    I was wondering if anybody knows of a program (CDEV, INIT, patch
>or whatever) that will do the following.  When I switch from an 
>application to the finder it will bring the desktop as the top window 
>so I can open other applications and disks without having to manually
>close or rearrange the previously opened windows.  It just that going
>back to the finder from MS Word or Telnet so I can open another program
>or search through my hard drive is a pain because I have to either shrink
>all of the windows or quit out of the programs

Well, it doesn't do exactly what you ask, but there's a *commercial* INIT
called On Cue that should solve the problem.  It installs an icon with a
pull down menu at the far end of the menu bar.  The in tallows you to add
applications to that menu, and when selected, they launch.  You can also
attach a hierarchical menu of documents to each application.  Check with
MacConnection.

On the other hand, if you were looking for a PD/freeware/shareware pgm, I
don't know of any.

Ah yes, I believe Master Juggler (commercial) will do something similar to
OnCue but I've never seen it work.

Hope this helps,

-Ivan

	"I'm too old for Santa Claus, and I don't believe in Batman.
		Nobody does this kind of stuff for free."
			-Jon Sable in _Jon_Sable,_Freelance_ by Mike Grell

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