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From: lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0
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Date: 23 Jan 91 23:32:21 GMT
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In article <5611@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
> 
> Isn't that being fixed in System 7.0?  Serious question here --
> anyone?  If it's not, and even if the dialogs complain something like
> "The aplication that created this document can not be found" and exit
> instead of offering to open it with another application that can read
> TEXT files -- THEN, I'd bash a few fruitcakes at Apple.

In the current System 7 release several things are done.  If you try to open
a TEXT or PICT document and the application isn't found, the Finder will
offer to open it with TeachText.

It is possible to add a resource to a document that will provide more 
descriptive information.  One such resource identifies the name of the
application that created it, so at least the user will know that.  A
different resource is used for documents that aren't supposed to be opened
from the Finder.

Also, you can drop documents onto applications in the Finder, provided the
application contains an FREF for the document.  This means that you can
keep an alias to your favorite WP program on the desktop, and drop TEXT files
onto it.  Someone could write a "universal" viewer that could display large
TEXT files, PICTs, ... and use that instead.

> having to reach for the mouse to click on the Multifinder icon under
> System 6 to switch between my telnet session and my text editor, but
> now I have to actually pull down a _menu_?  Bleah.

I've updated my ApplicationMenu utility to work with System 7.  It doesn't 
provide keyboard switching, but it allows you to popup the menu from 
anywhere on the screen.  I'm still testing it before releasing the "final"
version.

Larry