Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!apple.com!chewy From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What is Backgrounder? FinderStartup? Message-ID: <8597@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Jun 90 02:03:54 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 46 References: <8541@goofy.Apple.COM> <568@argosy.UUCP> <1990Jun6.154344.15507@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <1990Jun6.154344.15507@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes: > In article <568@argosy.UUCP> jay@idiot.UUCP (Jay O'Conor) writes: > >Huh? 6.0.4 (and probably 6.0.5, but I haven't tried it) supports > >automatically launching apps at boot time if they're in the "Background Folder" > >within the System Folder. At least I think it's named "Background Folder". > > Huh? The way to specify an application should be started when multifinder > starts is to open those applications you want, go to Set Startup, and tell it > to open "Open Applications and DAs"... if there is a "Background Folder", it > is not documented in anything I've seen. You're both right. The reason that the "Background Folder" trick is undocumented is that it really doesn't do what it was intended to do. Let me explain a bit further. What I meant in my original posting was that there was always intended to be a mechanism for allowing things like Print Monitor. What makes Print Monitor kinda weird is that it pops up under some condition, and goes away under some condition--automagically. There is no "Quit" menu item anywhere; when Print Monitor comes and when it goes is not under user control. It's just there, providing a service. Pre-System 7.0, there isn't a supported mechanism for launching and quitting from such applications. When you Restart or Shutdown under MultiFinder, it goes through this elaborate mating ritual with all of the currently-running applications in order to convince the applications to quit themselves just as if the user had selected "Quit" from the "File" menu. That's kinda hard to do if you have nothing equivalent to a "Quit" item. Ordinary apps do indeed work just fine in the "Background Folder." __________________________________________________________________________ Paul Snively Macintosh Developer Technical Support Apple Computer, Inc. chewy@apple.com Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe what they believe, or vice-versa. __________________________________________________________________________