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From: sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Saveing documents and Auto Generation of Prog. Manager Doc. Icon?
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Date: 3 Mar 91 22:51:44 GMT
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Question:
Let's say I've created a new document group (e.g. termpaper) in the
program manager and then drag a copy of an application (let's say
Write or some such thing) into that folder because I'm want to create
a bunch of related documents that I'm working on. Now, if I fire up
Write from that group and do my business and issue a "save as" command
and quit for the session. Everything is ok except that either:

1. In order for me to reopen that document later I have to futz around with
the file mangler (a.k.a manager) to reopen the document.

or

2. I can get the document to show up in the program group by using the
copy command in the program manager and dragging the document in from
the file manager

What I would _like_ is for windows to be smart enough to automatically
create the document icon in the document group from which I initiated
the app. (like a mac does ... oops I gave myself away) so its sitting
there waiting to be opened the next time 'round. Perhaps that is
asking too much, but a "direct manipulation" user x-face is _supposed_
to do that kind of stuff automatically. Am I missing something?
I even stooped to reading the directions and that didn't help.

Thanks in advance,

Marcos Salganicoff
General Robotics and Active Sensing Lab
UPENN
Philadelphia, PA (USA)