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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.011044.15742@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 01:10:44 GMT
References: <20283@unix.SRI.COM> <5611@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <11827@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <11827@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.com (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <5611@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@dry.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>> 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.
>

  I wrote a hack several months ago which puts the twitch back into the
MultiFinder icon in System 7.  (ie, you can click on the icon to switch
applications instead of having to select the application from the menu.)
I don't have a copy handy, but it's on the MacHack '90 CD.

  -- Dean

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