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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Software to Hide Windows
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Date: 6 Dec 90 23:43:41 GMT
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In article <12469@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>Please answer a question for me: is it possible to put system 7 in a mode 
>where it automatically hides all the windows for another application? With 
>the silly version 6 beta MF you have to select "set aside others" every 
>time you want it. Worse, you have to hold option to get that; the default 
>is a totally useless "set aside self". Wish I knew how to fix that with 
>ResEdit.

  In System 7, there are separate "Hide application" and "Hide Others" items
under the application menu.

>For that matter, I'd love to be able to bring the finder disk icons 
>forward with the windows. Then no need for set aside, for me. Good old 
>Apple and their compulsion about the silly "desktop" metaphore. Give me 
>windows and you can have the "desktop".

  (Plug forthcoming...)  I wrote an INIT for System 7 which puts aliases of
mounted volumes in a folder.  If you keep the window for this folder open,
you'll effectively have your volume icons in a window.  Too bad there aliases
don't work under System 6...

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