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From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Weird stuff with WindowChooser 1.12
Message-ID: <8357@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 90 10:12:23 GMT
Sender: Derek Fong <thewho@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong)
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I have some interesting yet very strange things happen with WindowChooser
1.12.  Does anyone know how to get in touch with the author(s) of the program?

Anyways, here's a list of things:

1) if you boot up with the CAPS LOCK key down, then the darn thing does not
work.  With caps lock off, it loads no problem.  (I found this out randomly.)

2) it conflicts with Excel 2.2 in two ways:
   a) it does not work or activate with Excel.  Doesn't bother me, but....
   b) This is the weird one: while running Excel help under multifinder, the
window does not show up.  Why?  I'm not sure.

3) it conflicts with Superpaint 2.0. 
  Again, it has the problem with multifinder.  iF you run Superpaint with
Multifinder and Windowchooser, when you try to open a file, it reads it in,
but you can't see the window!!  (you can load tons of different files in, and
choose which one you want to view, and it gets "checked" in the menu; however,
no windows are present on the screen.  Totally weird to me.


HAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCED ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS?  IS THERE A LATER VERSION
OF THE CDEV BEYOND 1.12 WHICH FIXES SOME OF THESE BUGS.  I DON'T REALLY MIND
THAT CERTAIN PROGRAMS DON'T RECOGNIZE WINDOWCHOOSER, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT
PRACTICAL WHEN IT DISABLES WINDOWS ALTOGETHER.

Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, my list of things I would like to see in a newer version of WindowChooser
(or future version suggestionsI):
1) further enhancements to make the NeXT windows closer to the next.  Maybe
changing the shade of the scroll bars too to match the top of the window.

2) Have the shrinker feature option on the NeXT window (I like Eric's best).

3) fix the bugs I mentioned above....

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Okay, that's it.

Thanks in advance.

---Derek Fong
fong@cive.stanford.edu
thewho@portia.stanford.edu