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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Window closer for Multifinder
Summary: Not that easy
Keywords: Multifinder
Message-ID: <406@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 89 22:31:18 GMT
References: <199@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <TIME.89Aug2150106@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <TIME.89Aug2150106@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP> time@oxtrap.UUCP writes:
>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.
>
>Why don't you just quit putting your icons on the DeskTop? If you keep
>them in a window, they come to the front. The only catch now is the
>disk icons. I wish I could place them into a window. I also wish the
>Finder would "conceptually" make the desktop a window.
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yup.  If the Finder made the desktop a window so that all of its items came
to the front, that would make things a hell of a lot easier.  While keeping
applications in windows works fine, try throwing something out with the trash-
can obscured.  Or getting rid of a floppy (not just ejecting it; just ejecting
leaves the door open for the finder to ask for all the once-inserted floppies
over and over again at really inconvenient times... :-<) without being able
to grab the floppy _or_ see the trashcan.  I use OnCue, a commercial product
(demo version is called MFMenus+) which adds a menu to the upper-right corner
of the menu bar into which you can install frequently-used applications and
documents.  That way, I avoid the finder as much as possible.  I hope, however,
for all you Apple folks listening, that something _other_ than MultiFinder's
"Set Aside" option is in the works.  I don't want to have to set aside five
applications (running System 7.0 and virtual memory ;->) just to get rid of
a disk or a file...

Also, as an aside, MultiFinder 6.1 doesn't work with OnCue (On Cue ends up with
a list of the DA's instead of open applications).  I suspect that this is under
repair for when 6.1 goes official, but it means I can't use this version of
MultiFinder (I think it's the fault of On Cue, though).

--Mike

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