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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Gripes about System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.151149.1968@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 15:11:49 GMT
References: <11863@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jan26.221219.4169@cbnewsk.att.com> <1766@camex.COM>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
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In article <1766@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes:
>In article <1991Jan26.221219.4169@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) (and others) write(s):
> about 7.0 Finder launching "foster applications" to open "orphan
>documents".  (Like Word opening a MacWrite document)
>
>
>I think I would like it if, when an orphan document is opened, Finder
>presents the user with a list of applications that are on mounted
>disks and mention that document type in their bundles.  The user
>selects the desired application and Finder tells it to open the
>document.
>
>Clearly, if the real application later shows up, Finder should ask
>*it* to open the document.
>
>A nice aditional feature would be if Finder remembered what foster
>application was chosen last time and moved it to the head of the list,
>selected, and waiting for a Return or Enter to continue.
>
>Reasonable?
>
>
>--
>Kent Borg                            internet: kent@camex.com   AOL: kent borg
>                                            H:(617) 776-6899  W:(617) 426-3577
>Kent's Invasion Countdown: I was off by 24-hours.




 The control panel device Handoff II written by Fred Hollander does 
something very similar. I have gotten so used to it, that I sometimes forget
that it isn't part of the system software. I highly reccommend it.


	Mike Bell






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