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From: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hiding background layers in MultiFinder
Message-ID: <6391@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 90 19:48:26 GMT
Reply-To: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Organization: Purdue University
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erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) writes:
>
>I find both Set Aside and Set Aside Others to be tremendously useful for
>decreasing screen clutter, especially on a my Plus. My only wish is that
>MultiFinder would _automatically_ set aside the current application when
>I switch to another app. Since it doesn't, I usually switch to another app
>via the Apple menu and then select Set Aside Others to set aside whatever
>app I was just in. Just takes a little longer than it should.

I believe the reason that Apple avoided automatically hiding windows when
switching applications is for those people who either enjoy or need to see
what their application is doing in the background.

It would be terrible if you had a two-page monitor (or two monitors) and
you had application windows spread out on the screen(s). Then when you
switched applications, all but the current one disappeared.

Ya see?!

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