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From: vila@wmt.UUCP (Vincent van der Laan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: finder irritations
Summary: one finder irritation less!
Message-ID: <383@wmt.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 12:50:56 GMT
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In article <1989Oct17.220051.25171@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
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>   I remember hearing somewhere that the 'new' finder will not bring a
> window forward, or some such, until a mouse-up.  So you press the button
> on the file, and if you keep the button down {very reasonable assumption
> IMHO} then you're proably doing a file-drag for a copy or some such.
> 
>   Having played with this idea some in my current projects it works quite
> well.  The users really don't care if a window isn't selected until the
> mouse-up, and in fact I personal haven't noticed much difference in
> operation as far as window selection goes.
> 
>   This is all based on memory, and I might be confused...  But if I am
> confused I'd like to submit this idea as a possible solution.  Seems
> elegant {sp??} to me, so that must mean I didn't think of it.   :-)


I was at the Apple Macintosh Developers Conference in Paris and sure
enough, this feature of System 7.0 was demonstrated (the crowd cheered)!
I don't know implementation details though. Anyway, we just have to wait
till 7.0 comes out. (BTW it was great to see the outline fonts!)

Greetings, Vincent.