Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!husc6!sunfs3!kent
From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
Message-ID: <538@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 20 Oct 89 15:47:18 GMT
References: <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <111900082@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I have two major irritations when using the finder:
>
>1. You have two folders open and you want to transfer or
>copy a file from one to the other. You click on the file
>you want to move and then its window comes to the front
>which totally obliterates your view of the destination folder.
>Yuck! it would have been easier to use DOS or UNIX.

This is supposed to be fixed in the 7.0 Finder.  As of last May (very
old 7.0 info at this point, but the best I have), Apple said that the
new 7.0 Finder would not restack windows on mouse down, but wait until
mouse up, so just grabbing an icon and dragging it off will not hide
your destination.

>2. When using multifinder typically you have a lot of windows
>open for whatever applications you're using. If you go to the
>desktop these windows block out your view of the trashcan. It
>feels pretty bad when you can't even remove files.

This will also get better under 7.0, but you don't have to wait until
then!  Find someone who has Apple's SADE debugger.  With it comes
MultiFinder 6.1b7 (at least that is my number) which has a "Set Aside"
item under the apple menu.  It causes all the windows belonging to the
current application to be spirited off to some invisible place where
they don't cover up the screen and where they don't require lots of
update time.  

6.1b7 also moves the application list to appear above the DA
list--very nice for us Suitcase abusers.  Seems to be solid too.  I
think all MultiFinder users should use it.

-- 
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